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The view is blurred and grainy. Shadowy time before dawn. The road is empty up to the horizon. The bus has arrived. It’s a long way to Pingyao.
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I find literary translation very rewarding. Yet translating classic writings of the past centuries is like dodging amongst the archaic words and old grammars of a meandring language with deadly inversions and fatal inflections: the outcome is a matter of linguistic life or death.
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I've always been fascinated by things, especially old things with stories imprinted on their faces. I like to imagine the daily routines they'd been involved into. How they had been used, how they had affected people's lives.
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