主办单位：复旦大学中华文明国际研究中心

      复旦大学中国语言文学系

主讲人：闵福德（John Minford）澳洲国立大学荣休教授

主持人：杨乃乔   复旦大学中文系教授

                          范圣宇   澳洲国立大学中文系高级讲师

讲座语言：英语

地点：复旦大学光华楼西主楼1001会议室

第一场《诗经》: 从耶稣会到庞德

时间：2019年4月4日（周四）18:00

第二场  I. 诗：现代主义与中国  II. 译词的境界

时间：2019年4月9日（周二）18:00

第三场 新诗的翻译

时间：2019年4月11日（周四）18:00

主讲人简介：闵福德，著名汉学家、翻译家。曾师从牛津大学霍克思、澳洲国立大学柳存仁。曾与霍克思合作翻译《红楼梦》后四十回，并为企鹅经典丛书翻译过《易经》、《道德经》、《孙子兵法》及《聊斋志异》选本等。

讲座提要:

Lecture 1: Songs on a Very Slow Boat

I'd love to get you on a slow boat to China, all to myself alone.

《诗经》: 从耶稣会到庞德

The Book of Songs 诗经 travels slowly in translation to the West, from the early Latin of the Jesuit Father Alexandre de Lacharme in the 18th century, to James Legge’s High Victorian in the 19th century, Bernhard Karlgren’s philological reconstruction & Arthur Waley’s Bloomsbury ballads in the 20th century. Ezra Pound creates his radical version in the first years of his long stay in the mental asylum of St Elizabeth’s, outside Washington D.C.

Lecture 2, Part I:

The Image of China – 

from Chinoiserie to Cathay

Celle que j'aime, à présent, est en Chine;
Elle demeure, avec ses vieux parents,
Dans une tour de porcelaine fine,
Au fleuve jaune, où sont les cormorans

                                     – Théophile Gautier, ‘Chinoiserie’ 

诗：现代主义与中国

Mademoiselle Judith Gautier in Paris creates the first real Chinese poetry for Europe in her Livre de Jade. The Sinologue Marquis d’Hervey de Saint Denys brings Tang poetry into the aristocratic salons of Paris. Gustav Mahler, in his Das Lied von der Erde, basing himself on Hans Bethge’s Die Chinesische Flöte, draws Chinese poetry into the very heart of European Late Romanticism. After the First World War, Arthur Waley’s translations of the fu 赋, still laden with Edwardian echoes, gradually give way to a new modernist (and sometimes monotonous) method. Among his fellow modernists, Ezra Pound, the Arch-Imagist, uses Fenollosa’s notes to create his Cathay (thereby, according to Eliot’s absurdly pretentious claim, ‘inventing Chinese poetry’). Pound fights it out with the Hippo-poetess, Amy Lowell, and Fir-Flower Tablets 松花笺, her collaboration with her wealthy Shanghai lady-friend Florence Ayscough. In San Francisco, Witter Bynner collaborates with the exiled Chinese man-of-letters Kiang Kang-hu to produce The Jade Mountain, a complete 唐诗三百首. Kenneth Rexroth and Gary Snyder introduce Chinese poets into the Beat world. Forgotten among all this half century of modernist fuss were whole generation of old-fashioned China Coast versifiers such as E. H. Parker (V.W.X.), Alfred Lister, Herbert Giles, Charles Budd and W. J. B. Fletcher. Surely it is high time to do them honour? 

Lecture 2, Part II: 

Spirit Ditties of No Tone

Translating the Chinese Lyric 词

Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter

译词的境界

Translating Chinese ‘songs without music’ presents an extreme challenge. Father John Turner S.J. sings in sedate Jesuit rhymes. The bohemian John Scott experiments with abandon. C. H. Kwock strums to the San Francisco sound. Translating the lyrics of Soong Hsun-leng 宋训伦: a case study. 

Lecture 3: Dancing in Chains

Translating Modern Chinese Poetry

新诗的翻译

Harold Acton & Ch’en Shih-hsiang in the Peking poetic world of the 1930s. Robert Payne and the younger generation in Kunming. The Misty 朦胧1980s poetry of Yang Lian 杨炼 and Gu Cheng顾城. The Hong Kong poetry of Leung Ping-kwan 梁秉钧 (Yah-see也斯).