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Renditions no. 97 (Spring 2022)

This general issue begins with a special section on Wilt L. Idema’s tour-de-force translation of Pu Songling’s 蒲松齡 ‘A Pleasant Song’ 快曲, a Qing-dynasty prosimetric rendition of the pursuit of Cao Cao in the aftermath of his catastrophic defeat at the Battle of Red Cliff. Other highlights include two song suites by the late-Ming patriotic prodigy Xia Wanchun 夏完淳, Wang Guowei’s 王國維 landmark essay ‘Critique of Dream of the Red Chamber’ 《紅樓夢》評論, and Fei Ming’s 廢名 enigmatic story ‘Peach Orchard’ 桃園.

134 pages

Order

Editor’s Page		5
Special Section
Pu Songling	A Pleasant Song Translated by Wilt L. Idema	7
Xia Wanchun	Two Song Suites Translated by Sunny Yuchen Liu	53
	Self-Confession: In the Xianlü Mode, Beginning with the Tune of ‘Bang zhuangtai’	55
	Reflections: In the Xianlü Mode, Beginning with the Tune of ‘Ganzhou ge’	61
Wang Guowei	Critique of Dream of the Red Chamber Translated by Theodore Huters	67
Fei Ming	Peach Orchard Translated by Andrew F. Jones	102
Wu Zuxiang	On Dreams Translated by Lifeng Ouyang	110
Ye Zhaoyan	Sweetheart Lu Hanming Translated by Chen Wen’an	115
Zhang Zhihao	Five Poems Translated by Yuemin He	125
	The Everlasting Pot	125
	Fish That Jumped Out of the Frying Pan	126
	By the Steamer	127
	Fried Rice	128
	Fried Lotus Flowers	130
Notes on Authors		131
Notes on Contributors		133

Renditions no. 97 (Spring 2022)

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