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Renditions no. 84 (Autumn 2015)

Renditions no. 84 is a general issue with a special section devoted to the first two chapters of Chi Pang-yuan’s 齊邦媛 epic autobiography, The Great Flowing River, as expertly translated by John Balcom. Other features comprise one more chapter of Erik Honobe’s fine rendering of Feng Menglong’s 馮夢龍 seventeenth-century historical novel, Chronicles of the Eastern Zhou Kingdoms, together with excellent translations of two of the finest poets now writing in Chinese, Yu Jian 于堅 and Yang Mu 楊牧, from mainland China and Taiwan respectively.

133 pages

Order

Editor’s Page		5
Special Section
Chi Pang-yuan	The Great Flowing River: excerpts Translated by John Balcom	9
	Chapter One: My Homeland in Songs	9
	Chapter Two: A Journey of Blood and Tears—The Eight Years of the War of Resistance	55
Feng Menglong	Chronicles of the Eastern Zhou Kingdoms: Chapter Four Translated by Erik Honobe	79
Yu Jian	Five Poems Translated by Naikan Tao and Simon Patton	95
	Queen of the Northside Factories	96
	Public Bath	99
	Opus 49	101
	He Came to Pick Me Up in His Black Car …	103
	Sunday in Cuihu Park	104
Yang Mu	Eight Poems Translated by Wen-chi Li and Colin Bramwell	114
	Scale Insect	114
	To the Angel	118
	Substitution	120
	Solitude, 1910	122
	Pindar’s Ode	124
	Chang’an	126
	Remembering Berkeley	128
	Greek	130
Notes on Authors		132
Notes on Contributors		133

Renditions no. 84 (Autumn 2015)

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