Ming Aretê | Phil Hand | Activity https://mingarete.com/members/phil-hand/activity/ Activity feed for Phil Hand. Mon, 03 Nov 2025 09:33:38 +0000 https://buddypress.org/?v=1.5.8 en-US 30 hourly 2 0f4f797203d6202be307fdafcb6f1f34 phil-hand replied to the discussion Idea about rhythm for translating classical poems in the forum https://mingarete.com/forums/discussion/idea-about-rhythm-for-translating-classical-poems/#post-15872 Mon, 18 Jan 2021 14:44:29 +0000 Yep, alliteration definitely works… In fact, you’re right, I think I’ve led myself down the Sinologists’ blind alley again. Because the point isn’t to try to reproduce the form of the Chinese poem, or even to transmute it in some way. The urge to do that comes from the scholar’s natural interest in Chinese forms. But a translator should be transl… Read more

]]> 0 86334e63a080ab3100b6ef68e583f00f phil-hand started the discussion Idea about rhythm for translating classical poems in the forum https://mingarete.com/forums/discussion/idea-about-rhythm-for-translating-classical-poems/ Mon, 18 Jan 2021 02:02:23 +0000 I spotted this translation of a Li Bai poem by Xu Yuanchong (in an interesting paper found here: http://www.academia.edu/39738578), and it gave me an idea about how to write Chinese rhythms in… Read more

]]> 0 1e766697ca61d8bd888f42625ee8c5ad phil-hand changed their photo https://mingarete.com/activity/p/125/ Mon, 21 Sep 2020 09:23:43 +0000 1 d77105f1cd194a3b7130733dc79f04a2 phil-hand posted an update: https://mingarete.com/activity/p/123/ Mon, 21 Sep 2020 09:21:43 +0000 0 f953130914e6bad212047b642803365f phil-hand posted a new post, Translating Literature vs. Commercial Translation https://mingarete.com/?p=6157 Mon, 06 Jul 2020 03:01:09 +0000 I was thinking about how translating literature is different from my day job, which is commercial translation, and I came up with two things that I think lay out the difference for me fairly clearly.

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