Three Hundred Chinese Cut Verses with English Translations

Download or read book Three Hundred Chinese Cut Verses with English Translations written by Yongsheng Cheng and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2023-05-03 with total page 365 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This anthology is comprised of three hundred Chinese cut verses, each followed by an English translation. The anthology consists of six parts: poems about photographs; poems about paintings; initiation and response; chanting; poems about exchanges with friends; and poems in memory of late parents, scholars and sages. All the poems revolve around the poet’s life at Beijing Geely University and his vacations in Huainan, including poems depicting the fight against the coronavirus. The poet is aware that translating a Chinese cut verse into an English verse is, in fact, writing what is said in Chinese in accordance with the English versification, and all the translations are completed accordingly.