Shashibiya yan li de Lin Daiyu
By: Pei Yu zhu
Edition: Di 1 ban
Publisher: Beijing hang kong hang tian da xue chu ban she
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Beijing
Language: chi
Number of pages: 225
ISBN-13: 9787811243758
Subjects: Translations; East and West
Description: Through comparing Cao Xueqin's original manuscript of Hong Lou Meng with translations done by the western writers into their own languages, the author tells what are good translations and what are way off, and how the best translation is often not literal, but rather the meanings which the characters in the novel would express at the time and circumstance.