Entries by Cecilia
Trans – Last Night on the Ferry + Splendid Future (Lyrics)
Below is translation of 2 of my fav songs.. pretty old ones though.. the chinese name of which is 《昨夜的渡輪上》and also 《前程錦繡》
Trans – Purpose of Translation part II
The fourth ancient purpose is to translate the world’s great books, the universal works in which the human spirit is enshrined and lives: poetry, ogy, sociology and politics, of individual and social behavior. These are the works which, in principle, should be retranslated for each generation, where the universal outweighs the cultural.
Trans – Purpose of Translation part I
Translation is linked with an awareness of democratic potential: it is a weapon against obscurantism, the realization that the material, social and cultural inequalities often associated with ethnic and linguistic group as have to be at least drastically reduced.
CHINESE