Forlorn in the Rain-Translation and Annotation of Selected Classical Chinese Poetry and Others

Publisher : Foreign Languages Press; 1st edition (October 1, 2018)
Language : English
Paperback : 328 pages
ISBN-10 : 7119116649
ISBN-13 : 978-7119116648


About the Author
Ben Wang is Senior Lecturer in Language and Humanities at the New York China Institute in America, and Instructor of Chinese at the United Nations. He also serves as Co-Chair of the N.Y. Renwen Society and Advisor and Chief Translator for the N.Y. Kunqu Society. Ben Wang has lectured on classical Chinese literature and drama at Yale, Columbia, the Smithsonian, the National Gallery of Art, United Nations, Lincoln Center and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, among others. He taught Chinese and translation at Columbia University and New York University between 1969 and 1991. Ben Wang received the 1988 literature translation prize for his translation of Growing Up by Russell Baker, awarded by the Literary Association of Taiwan, China. On September 6, 2003, he was conferred upon the citation of being an outstanding citizen by the City Council of New York. In 2009, Laughter and Tears: Translation of Selected Kunqu Dramas was published by Foreign Languages Press.

"A fine classical Chinese poem serves as a bridge for readers to wander into the mind and heart of the poet who inspires us to marvel at the beauty of a literary genre that blends so perfectly high music and lustrous pictures: the two components that make up the Chinese language. Forlorn in the Rain is to introduce, translate and annotate some of the most memorable and hauntingly beautiful classical Chinese poems and literary works that transcend time and place in how they portray love and life, with all the joys and lamentation in human existence. "