Word: shih
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...CHINESE TESTAMENT: THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF TAN SHIH-HUA AS TOLD TO S. TRETIAKOV-Simon & Schuster ($3). Russian-ghosted autobiography of a Chinese intellectual, unsensational, indigenous. THE METHOD OF FREEDOM-Walter Lippmann-Macmillan ($1.50). Lectures delivered at Harvard last month by a noted public-pulse-finder. DREAM AND ACTION-Leonard Bacon- Harper ($2). Narrative poem based on the life of the late great Poet-to-end-Poets Arthur Rimbaud, with a translation of the famed Bateau Ivre. THE PROVINCIAL LADY IN AMERICA- E. M. Delafield-Harper ($2). Author Delafield's famed Provincial Lady visits the U. S., keeps her ironic...
...translations are too free to be representative of the Chinese poems -- there is hardly any close resemblance between the originals and his renditions in most cases. To illustrate: "The Loyal Wife's Song" of Chang Chi on page 86, which was the poet's letter to governor-general Li Shih Tao in the form of a loyal wife's song refusing his improper invitation to office, was translated by Dr. Hart as follows...
Proxy In Canton, China, because Shih Kwangtung could not come from Singapore for his marriage ceremony, the bride's parents selected a handsome rooster to take his place, married...
Authoress Buck's magnum opus is not her own. She herself does not know who the author was, says it might have been Shih Nai-an but thinks it more likely that this massive (1,279-page) medieval novel, like the cathedrals of France, the epics of Homer, was the work of many forgotten hands. First written down some six centuries ago, it probably had wide if fragmentary currency 200 years before that. Says Translator Buck: "All Men Are Brothers is a great pageant of China. I think it is one of the most magnificent pageants ever made...
...Oriental locutions or ceremonial incantations; the narrative is written even more simply than the famed Tale of Genji (TIME, July 3). Shui Hu Chuan's Chinese manners are polite: each of its 70 chapters begins, "It is said:" ends in some such manner as. "How then did Shih Chin and the three chieftains escape? Pray hear it told in the next chapter...