In his article, “Indeterminacy, Multivalence and Disjointed Translation”, Jiang, an intelligent, talented, well-read and highly-motivated non-native speaker of English, provides a critical commentary on literary translations into English from Chinese, and further, attempts to build a theory on the work of non-native speakers of English who have attempted to translate poetry from Chinese into English. A great deal of thought and reading has gone into the attempt, and although it was arguably bound to end in tears, it raises three important issues which ought to engender debate in the pages of Target.

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Liu, James

1962 The art of Chinese poetry. Chicago: Chicago University Press.

Minford, John and Lau, Joseph S. M.

2000 Classical Chinese literature: An anthology of translation vol 1, Hong Kong: Chinese University Press and New York: Columbia University Press.

Xu, Yuanzhong

1994 Song of the immortals: An anthology of classical Chinese poetry, Beijing: New World Press.