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Bai Xingjian
Bai Xingjian (, 776–826) was a Chinese novelist and poet in imperial China's Tang Dynasty. He was a younger brother of the famed poet Bai Juyi. One of his most famous works is the novella ''The Tale of Li Wa''. It has been translated into English many times: * by Arthur Waley in ''More Translations from the Chinese'' (1919) — as "The Story of Miss Li". * by Yang Xianyi and Gladys Yang in ''The Dragon King's Daughter: Ten T'ang Dynasty Stories'' (1962) — as "Story of a Singsong Girl". * by Glen Dudbridge in ''The Tale of Li Wa: Study and Critical Edition of a Chinese Story from the Ninth Century'' (1983). It was also translated into many other languages, for example German by Franz Kuhn and French by André Lévy. He is also believed to have written the poem "Tiandi yinyang jiaohuan dalefu". Further reading * Zhongguo gudian xiaoshuo yanjiu zilao (T: 中國古典小說研究資料), ed., ''Bo Xingjian yu "Li Wa zhuan"'' (T: 白行簡與李娃傳). Taipei: Tianyi chubanshe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bai (surname)
Bái is the pinyin of the surname 白, meaning the colour white. Another surname, 柏, meaning the tree cypress. This one is the 37th name on the ''Hundred Family Surnames'' poem. Since 柏 is a character with two readings, it is often mistakenly read as "Bó". In modern Chinese, the proper way to pronounce it as a surname is "Bǎi". Bai and other variants were ranked 79th within the list of common Chinese surnames in 2006, down from 70th in 1990. Origin * a surname used by descendants of Bai Fu, a minister of the legendary Emperor Yan. * a surname used by descendants of Bai Gongsheng, the son of a crown prince of the State of Chu during the Spring and Autumn Period. * a surname used by the descendants of a prince named Bai, son of Duke Wu of the state of Qin. * a surname used by descendants of Duke Mu of Qin. * a surname used by the Mongols, possibly derived from Borjigin. * a surname used by the Manchus of Irgen Gioro and Bayara Gioro * during the ancient Tang Dynasty in m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
André Lévy (sinologist)
André Lévy (; 24 November 1925 – 3 October 2017) was a French sinologist. He was born in 1925 in Tianjin. He translated many Chinese works of fiction into French.Fogel, p. 160. Biography Levy was born in Tianjin, China, in 1925, the son of a family of watchmakers and jewellers, and grew up in the French concession in Tianjin. He married Anne-Marie Lévy, the Norwegian writer. Levy studied French and Sinology, Hindi and Sanskrit at the Sorbonne, and published numerous translations from the Chinese, including ''La pérégrination vers l'Ouest'' (Xiyou ji - Journey to the West) and ''Fleur en fiole d'or'' (Jin Ping Mei). In 1958, he was in charge of the EFEO in Hanoi for a while, before its closure. In 1959 he went to Kyoto, where he availed himself of the rich collections of Chinese literature at the Japon Jimbun Kagaku Kenkyûsho library. He left Kyoto in 1966, and went to Hong Kong, still as an EFEO researcher. In 1974 he received his doctorate in stories and spoken langua ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
9th-century Writers
The 9th century was a period from 801 ( DCCCI) through 900 ( CM) in accordance with the Julian calendar. The Carolingian Renaissance and the Viking raids occurred within this period. In the Middle East, the House of Wisdom was founded in Abbasid Baghdad, attracting many scholars to the city. The field of algebra was founded by the Muslim polymath al-Khwarizmi. The most famous Islamic Scholar Ahmad ibn Hanbal was tortured and imprisoned by Abbasid official Ahmad ibn Abi Du'ad during the reign of Abbasid caliph al-Mu'tasim and caliph al-Wathiq. In Southeast Asia, the height of the Mataram Kingdom happened in this century, while Burma would see the establishment of the major kingdom of Pagan. Tang China started the century with the effective rule under Emperor Xianzong and ended the century with the Huang Chao rebellions. While the Maya experienced widespread political collapse in the central Maya region, resulting in internecine warfare, the abandonment of cities, and a northward ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
9th-century Chinese Poets
The 9th century was a period from 801 ( DCCCI) through 900 ( CM) in accordance with the Julian calendar. The Carolingian Renaissance and the Viking raids occurred within this period. In the Middle East, the House of Wisdom was founded in Abbasid Baghdad, attracting many scholars to the city. The field of algebra was founded by the Muslim polymath al-Khwarizmi. The most famous Islamic Scholar Ahmad ibn Hanbal was tortured and imprisoned by Abbasid official Ahmad ibn Abi Du'ad during the reign of Abbasid caliph al-Mu'tasim and caliph al-Wathiq. In Southeast Asia, the height of the Mataram Kingdom happened in this century, while Burma would see the establishment of the major kingdom of Pagan. Tang China started the century with the effective rule under Emperor Xianzong and ended the century with the Huang Chao rebellions. While the Maya experienced widespread political collapse in the central Maya region, resulting in internecine warfare, the abandonment of cities, and a nort ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
8th-century Chinese Poets
The 8th century is the period from 701 ( DCCI) through 800 ( DCCC) in accordance with the Julian Calendar. The coast of North Africa and the Iberian Peninsula quickly came under Islamic Arab domination. The westward expansion of the Umayyad Empire was famously halted at the siege of Constantinople by the Byzantine Empire and the Battle of Tours by the Franks. The tide of Arab conquest came to an end in the middle of the 8th century.Roberts, J., ''History of the World'', Penguin, 1994. In Europe, late in the century, the Vikings, seafaring peoples from Scandinavia, begin raiding the coasts of Europe and the Mediterranean, and go on to found several important kingdoms. In Asia, the Pala Empire is founded in Bengal. The Tang dynasty reaches its pinnacle under Chinese Emperor Xuanzong. The Nara period begins in Japan. Events * Estimated century in which the poem Beowulf is composed. * Classical Maya civilization begins to decline. * The Kombumerri burial grounds are founded. * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
826 Deaths
8 (eight) is the natural number following 7 and preceding 9. In mathematics 8 is: * a composite number, its proper divisors being , , and . It is twice 4 or four times 2. * a power of two, being 2 (two cubed), and is the first number of the form , being an integer greater than 1. * the first number which is neither prime nor semiprime. * the base of the octal number system, which is mostly used with computers. In octal, one digit represents three bits. In modern computers, a byte is a grouping of eight bits, also called an octet. * a Fibonacci number, being plus . The next Fibonacci number is . 8 is the only positive Fibonacci number, aside from 1, that is a perfect cube. * the only nonzero perfect power that is one less than another perfect power, by Mihăilescu's Theorem. * the order of the smallest non-abelian group all of whose subgroups are normal. * the dimension of the octonions and is the highest possible dimension of a normed division algebra. * the first number ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
776 Births
__NOTOC__ Year 776 ( DCCLXXVI) was a leap year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. The denomination 776 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years. Events By place Byzantine Empire * April 24 – Emperor Leo IV ("the Khazar") appoints his 5-year-old son Constantine VI co-ruler of the Byzantine Empire. This leads to an uprising, led by one of Leo's half-brothers, ''Caesar'' Nikephoros, the second son of former emperor Constantine V. The revolt is quickly suppressed. Fortunately for Nikephoros, his only punishment is to be stripped of his titles, while the rest of the conspirators are blinded, tonsured, and exiled to Cherson (Southern Crimea) under guard. Europe * King Charlemagne spends Easter in Treviso (Northern Italy), after putting down a rebellion in Friuli and Spoleto. He removes Hrodgaud of Friuli from p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tianyi Chubanshe , Chinese vocaloid character
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Tianyi may refer to: * Tianyi Pavilion, Ningbo, the oldest existing library in China *Tianyi Square, Ningbo *Tianyi Film Company, one of the biggest film production companies in pre-World War II China *Tianyi UAV * Tianyi, the proper name of the star 7 Draconis *'' Tianyi bao'', A Chinese anarchist publication in Japan *Luo Tianyi Luo Tianyi () is a Chinese Vocaloid developed formerly by Bplats, Inc. under the Yamaha Corporation, and was created in collaboration with Shanghai Henian Information Technology Co. Ltd. she was released for the Vocaloid 3 and Vocaloid 4 engin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tiandi Yinyang Jiaohuan Dalefu
"Tiandi yinyang jiaohuan dalefu" () is a Chinese rhymed prose poem ('' fu)'' on sexual intercourse attributed to Tang poet Bai Xingjian (776–826). Although it is considered a lost work, fragments of the poem were discovered as part of the Dunhuang manuscripts by Paul Pelliot in 1908 and first published by Ye Dehui in 1914. Poetic structure and contents The poem is an example of '' fu'', translated into English as "songs" or "description", which were often intended to be recited, rather than sung. Specifically, it is a ''sufu'' () or "vulgar ''fu''", the likes of which were inspired by the oral traditions of Buddhism and Taoism during the Tang dynasty. The poet writes in the preamble: "Although it takes the form of obscene talk, the idea of the song will proclaim the delightful part of human life. As joy granted to human beings, there is nothing greater than this." The rest of the extant poem comprises 240 lines and describes fourteen forms of sexual intercourse, includin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Franz Kuhn
Franz Walther Kuhn (10 March 1884 – 22 January 1961) was a lawyer and a translator chiefly remembered for translating many Chinese novels into German, most famously the ''Dream of the Red Chamber''. Biography Kuhn studied law at the University of Leipzig and the University of Berlin, passing his state examination in 1908 and obtaining his doctorate in 1909. He began to practice law in Dresden in 1909. He was soon assigned to the German delegation to Peking as an interpreter, having completed a course of Chinese during his study at Berlin. He stayed in China until 1912. After the First World War, Kuhn began to translate classic Chinese literature into German. Eventually he ran into conflict with the Nazi authorities, who considered his works to be harmful. After the end of World War II, Kuhn's work began to be more widely known and appreciated. He received the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany in 1952. Jorge Luis Borges attributes the discovery of a " paradoxi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gladys Yang
Gladys Yang (; 19 January 1919 – 18 November 1999) was a British translator of Chinese literature and the wife of another noted literary translator, Yang Xianyi. Biography She was born Gladys Margaret Tayler at the Peking Union Medical College Hospital, Beijing, China, where her father, John Bernard Tayler, was a Congregationalist missionary and a member of the London Missionary Society and where from childhood she became intrigued by Chinese culture. She returned to England as a child and from 1927 to 1937 boarded at Walthamstow Hall in Sevenoaks, Kent. She then became Oxford University's first graduate in Chinese language in 1940, following studies there under Ernest Richard Hughes. It was at Oxford that she met Yang. After their marriage, the couple were based in Beijing as prominent translators of Chinese literature into English in the latter half of the 20th century, working for the Foreign Languages Press. Their four-volume ''Selected Works of Lu Xun'' (1956–1957) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
