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White Tiger: An Autobiography of Yang Xianyi
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Description for White Tiger: An Autobiography of Yang Xianyi
Paperback. A memoir of Yang Xianyi, renowned scholar, translator and interpreter of Chinese and Western literature. It portrays Yang Xianyi as a light-hearted and mischievous young man who immersed himself in the learning of European culture, ancient and modern, when he studied at Oxford in the 1930s. Num Pages: 328 pages, black & white plates. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 3JJ; BGA; JFCX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 213 x 140 x 20. Weight in Grams: 417.
It all began with a dream. A young woman saw a white tiger leap into her lap. It was both auspicious and unlucky - her son, the fortune-teller said, would grow up with no brothers, and his father's health would be endangered by his birth. That son, however, would have a distinguished career, after going through many misfortunes and dangers.
The dream was prophetic. The child was his mother's only male child and his father died of illness when the boy was only five. He grew up during the wartime and period of political turmoil in China, passing through ... Read more
It all began with a dream. A young woman saw a white tiger leap into her lap. It was both auspicious and unlucky - her son, the fortune-teller said, would grow up with no brothers, and his father's health would be endangered by his birth. That son, however, would have a distinguished career, after going through many misfortunes and dangers.
The dream was prophetic. The child was his mother's only male child and his father died of illness when the boy was only five. He grew up during the wartime and period of political turmoil in China, passing through ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
The Chinese University Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
328
Place of Publication
Hong Kong, Hong Kong
ISBN
9789629960469
SKU
V9789629960469
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Ref
99-1
About Unknown
Born in 1915 and educated in Oxford, Yang Xianyi is a world-renowned translator. He has translated, with his wife Gladys Yang, numerous Chinese classics such as A Dream of Red Mansions, The Scholars, and Selected Works of Lu Xun.
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