Nineteen Ways of Looking at Wang Wei: How a Chinese Poem is Translated

The difficulty (and necessity) of translation is concisely described in Nineteen Ways of Looking at Wang Wei, a close reading of different translations of a single poem from the Tang Dynasty—from a tr…

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