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• A Pair of (Not So Sharp) Blue Eyes: Misstep in Publishing My First Book

  July 30, 2009

  • The first published book of mine is a translation of Thomas Hardy’s A Pair of Blue Eyes. I signed the contract to translate the Victorian novel near the end of 1985, when China was still caught in the tide of a revival of leaning which had begun fervently in the early 1980s. This was after years of cultural proletarianization. Classics from Western, as well as Chinese literature, were hot items ...
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