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Renditions no. 94 (Autumn 2020)

This is a general issue featuring a rich collection of poetry. We begin with a special section devoted to the great Song-dynasty poet Lu You 陸游’s ci poems translated by Philip Watson, followed by selected Tang verse celebrating the talents of a woman poet, Shangguan Wan’er 上官婉兒, and two acerbic poems by Meng Jiao 孟郊. Our final poem is of recent vintage, Cai Xin’s 蔡欣 ‘If on an Island-State, an Old Man’ 如果在島國，一個老人. Other highlights include Wang Zengqi’s 汪曾祺 story ‘The Boy Who Fished for People’ 釣人的孩子 and Yu Guangzhong’s 余光中 essay ‘When Spring Comes to the Peninsula’ 春來半島.

143 pages

Order

Editor’s Page		5
Special Section
Lu You	Selected Ci Poems Translated by Philip Watson	7
————	Selected Tang Verse on Shangguan Wan’er Translated by Rebecca Doran	53
	Zheng Yin: A Respectfuly Submitted Companion Piece to His Majesty’s Poem, ‘Visiting Lady of Bright Countenance Shangguan’s Residence’: Four Poems	56
	Lü Wen: Song of Lady of Bright Countenance Shangguan’s Library	62
Meng Jiao	Two Poems Translated by Cathrine Witzling	66
	The Road to Chang’an	66
	The Song of the Beautiful People in Bashang	67
Sun Daoqian	The Reminiscences of My Deceased Daughter: excerpt Translated by Hangbin Bu	68
Zhu Xiang	Wayfarers Translated by Lifeng Ouyang	76
Xu Zhuodai	Three Stories	80
	The Bath House Philosopher Translated by Shuhui Yan	80
	The Love Agent Translated by Sunny Yuchen Liu	85
	At Long Last We Meet Translated by Maria Hongying Zheng	93
Wang Zengqi	The Boy Who Fished for People Translated by Andrew F. Jones	97
Yu Guangzhong	When Spring Comes to the Peninsula Translated by Yuk Sunny Tien	103
Xie Hong	Am I Very Important Translated by Jicheng Sun and Hal Swindall	108
Cai Xin	In on an Island-State, an Old Man Translated by Cheow Thia Chan	123
Notes on Authors		138
Notes on Contributors		141

Renditions no. 94 (Autumn 2020)

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