人和書 ( Men and Books) : 2月 2025

2025年2月24日星期一

Burton Watson著《司馬遷傳》和《史記》英譯的英文和日文書評。Literature and History in the Shi ji of Sima Qian：宮崎市定Miyazaki Ichisada解讀《史記》的經典研究譯成英文：

Burton Watson著《司馬遷傳》和《史記》英譯的英文和日文書評。Literature and History in the Shi ji of Sima Qian：宮崎市定Miyazaki Ichisada解讀《史記》的經典研究譯成英文：

名翻譯家Burton Dewitt Watson (June 13, 1925 – April 1, 2017) was an American sinologist, translator, and writer known for his numerous translations of Chinese and Japanese literature into English.
此文談他1958年的《司馬遷：中國大史家》Ssu-ma Ch'ien, Grand Historian of China, 1958
Ssu-ma Ch'ien, Grand Historian of China by Burton Watson (pp. 220-223)

Review by: Lien-sheng Yang

DOI: 10.2307/2718637

https://www.jstor.org/stable/2718637

和他1961年的《中國大史家司馬遷的史記選譯》Records of the Grand Historian of China, 1961

當時，台灣盜印普遍，所以

Records of the Grand Historian of China, 1961
Ssu-ma Ch'ien, Grand Historian of China, 1958

都有翻印。

哈佛的名漢學家楊聯陞在 HARVARD ASIAITIC JOURNAL都有書評，漢譯可參考楊聯陞《漢學書評》(北京：商務印書館，2016)。

當時台灣梁容若教授主編的《書和人》也從日本選兩篇書評翻譯：

2. 今鷹真〈評美國瓦特遜著《司馬遷傳》和《史記》英譯〉，陳淑女翻譯

楊聯陞在Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies Vol. 21, Dec., 1958 發表兩篇書評，上文
說的說的評Ssu-ma Ch'ien, Grand Historian of China by Burton Watson ，比起下篇，在質與量都比不上這篇：Chinese Porcelains From The Ardebil Shrine by John Alexander Pope (pp. 214-220)

Review by: Lien-sheng Yang

DOI: 10.2307/2718636

https://www.jstor.org/stable/2718636

世界陶瓷史很複雜，楊聯陞日文水準和哈佛大學的藏書，才可能讓他大力發揮綜合、評論。

Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies

Vol. 21, Dec., 1958

Chinese Porcelains From The Ardebil Shrine by John Alexander Pope (pp. 214-220)

Review by: Lien-sheng Yang

DOI: 10.2307/2718636

https://www.jstor.org/stable/2718636

The Chinese University of Hong Kong Press （香港中文大學出版社）

1小時

【Japanese Sinology Series】

日本漢學研究，經一代代學者耕耘，藉其獨特視角及研究方法，對學界影響深遠。

「日本漢學研究系列」叢書為香港中文大學出版社與傅佛果教授（Joshua A. Fogel）及其他學者的合作成果，首本面世的作品為著名日本漢學家宮崎市定Miyazaki Ichisada著作Literature and History in the Shi ji of Sima Qian。

本書翻譯由傅佛果教授主理，將宮崎市定解讀《史記》的經典研究譯成英文，推動學術交流。

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Literature and History in the Shi ji of Sima Qian is a translated and edited collection of studies on the Shi ji (Records of the historian) by Sima Qian, authored by the prestigious Japanese sinologist Miyazaki Ichisada. Providing a pathbreaking analysis of the structure and formation of the Shi ji, it serves not only as an excellent introduction to Sima Qian’s masterpiece but also offers historiographical and methodological insights that will stimulate further debate and research.

In this volume, Miyazaki presents fascinating evidence of the influence of narrative fiction and drama in Sima Qian’s recreation of the entire length and breadth of Chinese history right up to his own time. By establishing a foundational model for writing comprehensive histories in China, Sima Qian’s work is essential for understanding the subsequent tradition of historical writing. This volume offers readers valuable insights into how Sima Qian constructed his seminal work.

#宮崎市定 #MiyazakiIchisada #JapaneseSinologySeries #CUHKPress

2025年2月14日星期五

Pudd’nhead Wilson’s Calendar for 1894, Mark Twain. Each chapter of the novel begins with an aphorism attributed to Pudd’nhead Wilson’s “calendar,” an almanac written by a character in the book.

Pudd’nhead Wilson’s Calendar for 1894, Mark Twain. Each chapter of the novel begins with an aphorism attributed to Pudd’nhead Wilson’s “calendar,” an almanac written by a character in the book.

The Morgan Library & Museum

Switched at birth?

Mark Twain’s novel “Pudd’nhead Wilson,” first serialized in Century magazine, tells the story of two boys switched at birth—one a white aristocrat, the other an enslaved child of mixed Black and white ancestry. The indeterminate race of the latter, who is called Chambers, allows him to pass as the white man Tom Driscoll, highlighting the power of mixed-race characters to self-determine their identity. But as in many passing narratives, the characters in Twain’s book come to the unfortunate realization that they are not in control of how the world views them.

Each chapter of the novel begins with an aphorism attributed to Pudd’nhead Wilson’s “calendar,” an almanac written by a character in the book. To promote the serialized novel, the Century Company published under a fictional imprint this small format calendar, distributing it to bookstores and newsstands.

This calendar is on view until May 4, 2025.

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Pudd’nhead Wilson’s Calendar for 1894, [New York: Century, 1893], purchased in 1934; PML 30089. Photography by Carmen González Fraile, 2024.

#BlackHistoryMonth #MorganLibrary

可能是貓頭鷹和顯示的文字是「洛快喜 Yudd' >udd'nBead udd' nbead "ilson's ilson's Calendar for 1894 ঠচ 」的圖像

2025年2月6日星期四

Horace Walpole：書信選......悲劇喜劇但看……；文化類同與文化利用 Jonathan Spence；Capability Brown 1716-83 ，英國"最偉大"的景觀大師、企業家。Strawberry Hill forever.

Horace Walpole：書信選......悲劇喜劇但看……；文化類同與文化利用 Jonathan Spence；Capability Brown 1716-83 ，英國"最偉大"的景觀大師、企業家。Strawberry Hill forever.

Fine writers do psychoanalysis

“I have often said, and oftener think, that this world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.

This is a solution of why Democritus laughed and Heraclitus wept.”

Horace Walpole, 4th Earl of Orford, in a letter to his distant relative and 40-year correspondent Sir Horace Mann, 1st Baronet, New Year’s Eve, 1769.

Walpole was the author of the first Gothic horror novel, The Castle of Otranto, in 1764.
Horace Walpole：書信選......；文化類同與文化利用 Jonathan Spence；
Jonathan Spence.史景遷北大講演錄《文化類同與文化利用--世界文化總體對話中的中國形象》(Culture Equivalence and Culture Use )，廖世奇、彭小樵譯，北京大學出版社，1990年2月1版；1997年5月2版。
這是一本很難得的書
不過出版商沒說明許多細節
譬如說什麼時候演講
根據講稿或錄音整理或合用
沒有編索引
加一張隆溪撰文當附錄 (非法又很不禮貌地)：《非我的神話》--hc案這篇有翻譯錯誤譬如說 logographic 翻譯成"邏輯象形式的"　這 logo 可以想成現在商業的 logo 是類似"表意圖形式"
有趣的是引文為第357頁第3版為376頁

我們看Radio 4 - Reith Lectures 2008: Chinese Vistas
只四講本書卻有8講每講還有些文本討論所以我猜這可能是3小時的演講
此兩講稍微有從重複譬如說對 Goldsmith的引文 reason out等
問題是BBC的演講引文在原書中查不到

我陸續利用之

話說大才子Horace Walpole (1717-1797) 撰印Hieroglyphic Tales: (1785 日本人稱為象形文字譚第一版在自家 Strawberry Hill的印刷場只印六份）：我千辛萬苦找到：第五則故事：TALE V. Mi Li. A Chinese Fairy Tale.

http://www.gutenberg.org/files/14098/14098-h/14098-h.htm Mi Li, prince of China, was brought up by his godmother the fairy Hih, who was famous for telling fortunes with a tea-cup. From that unerring oracle she assured him, that he would be the most unhappy man alive unless he married a princess whose name was the same with her father's dominions.

除非娶一名字必須與其父的領地同名得公主，否則將是世界上最不快活的。

這故事末段很有名：

Running almost breathless up to lady Ailesbury, and seizing miss Campbell's hand—he cried, Who she? who she? Lady Ailesbury screamed, the young maiden squalled, the general, cool but offended, rushed between them, and if a prince could be collared, would have collared him—Mi Li kept fast hold with one arm, but pointing to his prize with the other, and with the most eager and supplicating looks intreating for an answer, continued to exclaim, Who she? who she? 【錢鍾書說這是這是英國人第一次讓中國人講不完全準確的英文】The general perceiving by his accent and manner that he was a foreigner, and rather tempted to laugh than be angry, replied with civil scorn, Why she is miss Caroline Campbell, daughter of lord William Campbell, his majesty's late governor of Carolina—Oh, Hih! I now recollect thy words! cried Mi Li—And so she became princess of China.

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Yale University Library

As part of the yearlong celebrations of the tercentenary of Horace Walpole’s birth, The Lewis Walpole Library and the Yale Center for British Art are collaborating to present a staged reading of Walpole’s play The Mysterious Mother (1768). Completed just a few years after his celebrated gothic novel The Castle of Otranto (1764), this underappreciated tale of incest and intrigue was initially circulated only among the author’s friends. Wednesday, May 2, 5:30 - 6:30 PM
Yale Center for British, Lecture Hall, 1080 Chapel Street, New Haven, CT 06510

Everyman's Library

"[Horace Walpole] prattles on for our entertainment, ultimately more kindly and generous than malevolent. He reaches out his bony crippled hands across the centuries, and smiles his knowing smile, and welcomes in his paying customers."
-- Novelist Margaret Drabble on Everyman's Library's new HORACE WALPOLE: SELECTED LETTERS, Edited by Stephen Clarke in the Times Literary Supplement

Strawberry Hill forever
The forty-eight large volumes of the Yale edition of Horace Walpole’s correspondence march along three open shelves in the Rare Books and Music Room of the British Library. They occupy a lot of space. Their indexes and…

THE-TLS.CO.UK

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【西倫敦的哥德式城堡–Strawberry Hill House

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矗立在西倫敦Strawberry Hill的全白哥德式建築，是英國第一任首相Sir Robert Walpole之子Horace Walpole所建造的夏季度假城堡Strawberry Hill House。城堡在18世紀建造完成時，因為全白的外觀和豐富的藝術收藏，而造成轟動，成為當時文人雅士爭相造訪的處所，當時城堡每天只接待4位訪客。

Walpole過世後，他的藝術收藏四散在世界各處，但館方透過數位修復、3D列印、館際合作等方式恢復Strawberry Hill House在18世紀的風華。

Standing on Strawberry Hill in West London is the all-white Gothic building, Strawberry Hill House. This summer retreat was built by Horace Walpole, the son of Britain's first Prime Minister, Sir Robert Walpole. The all-white facade and Walpole's art collection caused a sensation when it was completed in the 18th century, and it became a place that literary figures and artists eagerly visited. At the time, only four visitors were received each day.

After Walpole's death, his art collection was scattered around the world, but the museum has used digital restoration, 3D printing, cross-museum collaborations to restore Strawberry Hill House to its 18th-century grandeur.

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Capability Brown 1716-83 ，英國"最偉大"的景觀大師、企業家。even Kent's apologist Horace Walpole allowed that Kent had been followed by "a very able master".

YouTUBE的影片很多，請擇一觀賞。
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=Capability+Brown

Capability Brown (1716-1783) ，英國"最偉大"的景觀大師、企業家。

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University of Oxford

2016年8月31日下午11:00

It is 300 years since the birth of Lancelot ‘Capability’ Brown, who designed the gardens of some of England’s most beloved country houses. Dr Oliver Cox, Heritage Engagement Fellow at the University, tells us about ‘the man behind England’s green and pleasant land’.

Dr Cox, has co-curated an exhibition on 'Capability' Brown at the Bodleian Libraries' Weston Library which is open until September 4.

In this video, he explains how Oxford is celebrating the anniversary, and what we should know about ‘Capability’ Brown, and how he got his nickname. With thanks to Blenheim Palace & Capability Brown Festival 2016.

Capability Brown revolutionised gardening in Britain during the 18th century. Listen to this edition of #Membercast to learn more about his world, and the things that influenced his work.

Become a Member for brilliant benefits – free unlimited exhibition entry, exclusive events and more: http://ow.ly/hznI30bFctj

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capability_Brown

Lancelot "Capability" Brown
Capability Brown, by Nathaniel Dance, ca. 1773 (National Portrait Gallery)

Birth name	Lancelot Brown
Born	baptised 30 August 1716 Kirkharle, Northumberland
Died	6 February 1783 London
Parents	William Brown and Ursula, nee Hall
Spouse	Bridget Wayet
Occupation	Gardener, Landscape Architect

Lancelot Brown (born c. 1715–16, baptised 30 August 1716 – 6 February 1783),^[1] more commonly known with the bynameCapability Brown, was an English landscape architect. He is remembered as "the last of the great English 18th century artists to be accorded his due", and "England's greatest gardener". He designed over 170 parks, many of which still endure. He was nicknamed "Capability" because he would tell his clients that their property had "capability" for improvement.^[2]

His influence was so great that the contributions to the English garden made by his predecessors Charles Bridgeman and William Kent are often overlooked; even Kent's apologist Horace Walpole allowed that Kent had been followed by "a very able master".^[3]

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2025年2月24日星期一

Burton Watson著《司馬遷傳》和《史記》英譯的英文和日文書評。Literature and History in the Shi ji of Sima Qian：宮崎市定Miyazaki Ichisada解讀《史記》的經典研究譯成英文：

Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies

The Chinese University of Hong Kong Press （香港中文大學出版社）

2025年2月14日星期五

Pudd’nhead Wilson’s Calendar for 1894, Mark Twain. Each chapter of the novel begins with an aphorism attributed to Pudd’nhead Wilson’s “calendar,” an almanac written by a character in the book.

The Morgan Library & Museum

2025年2月6日星期四

Horace Walpole：書信選......悲劇喜劇但看……；文化類同與文化利用 Jonathan Spence；Capability Brown 1716-83 ，英國"最偉大"的景觀大師、企業家。Strawberry Hill forever.

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2025年2月24日 星期一

Burton Watson著《司馬遷傳》和《史記》英譯的英文和日文書評。Literature and History in the Shi ji of Sima Qian：宮崎市定Miyazaki Ichisada解讀《史記》的經典研究譯成英文：

Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies

The Chinese University of Hong Kong Press （香港中文大學出版社）

2025年2月14日 星期五

Pudd’nhead Wilson’s Calendar for 1894, Mark Twain. Each chapter of the novel begins with an aphorism attributed to Pudd’nhead Wilson’s “calendar,” an almanac written by a character in the book.

The Morgan Library & Museum

2025年2月6日 星期四

Horace Walpole： 書信選......悲劇喜劇但看……；文化類同與文化利用 Jonathan Spence；Capability Brown 1716-83 ，英國"最偉大"的景觀大師、企業家。Strawberry Hill forever.

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Some Blogs of Hanching Chung

網誌存檔

2025年2月24日星期一

2025年2月14日星期五

2025年2月6日星期四

Horace Walpole：書信選......悲劇喜劇但看……；文化類同與文化利用 Jonathan Spence；Capability Brown 1716-83 ，英國"最偉大"的景觀大師、企業家。Strawberry Hill forever.