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Poetic Intensity Adding Flowers to Lingering Charm——On Xu Yuan-chong's English Version of 300 Chinese-English Poems of Tang Dynasty
TL;DR: In terms of words choice and solution of the rhythm, the authors analyzed Xu Yuan-chong's English version of 300 Chinese-English Poems of Tang Dynasty and analyzed the achievements of "meaning beauty", sound beauty, and "form beauty" in the said book.
Abstract: Many years' translation practice in the field of poems enables Professor Xu Yuan-chong to form his unique theory of translation aesthetics which is characterized as "meaning beauty","sound beauty" and "form beauty".In terms of words choice and solution of the rhythm,this paper,based on Xu Yuan-chong's English version of 300 Chinese-English Poems of Tang Dynasty,analyzes the achievements of "meaning beauty","sound beauty" and"form beauty" in the said book.
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TL;DR: This article analyzed the differences in ecotourism between China and the West in history and found that Westerners tended to claim man and nature are separate, whereas ancient Chinese traditionally conceived of them within a unity.
Abstract: What type of ecotourism in China should be advocated so as to keep its own distinctive locality, while accepting the Western concept of ecotourism? Many scholars have their own opinions and answers to this question. The article attempts an answer by analysing the differences in ecotourism between China and the West. There are some similarities, but more differences, in the ecological values between China and the West in history: Westerners tended to claim man and nature are separate, whereas ancient Chinese traditionally conceived of them within a unity. Influenced by ecological values, Western ecotourism paradigms emphasise the natural attributes, whereas Chinese consider the unity of nature and human. Thus, both mass ecotourists separated from mass tourists and elite ecotourists comprise the initial group of Chinese ecotourists. Although the ecological value of ‘the unity of man and Heaven’ born in ancient China was seldom put into social practice, today's mass ecotourism, which is similar to Western su...
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...Those referred in the text are only the dominant ones of the time Source: Xue (2005). 570 Current Issues in Tourism...
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...Xu (2002) did not think that ecotourism originated from the West....
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...Source: Ye & Xue (2005). Differences in Ecotourism between China and the West 581...
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TL;DR: This article analyzed the differences in ecotourism between China and the West in history and found that Westerners tended to claim man and nature are separate, whereas ancient Chinese traditionally conceived of them within a unity.
Abstract: What type of ecotourism in China should be advocated so as to keep its own distinctive locality, while accepting the Western concept of ecotourism? Many scholars have their own opinions and answers to this question. The article attempts an answer by analysing the differences in ecotourism between China and the West. There are some similarities, but more differences, in the ecological values between China and the West in history: Westerners tended to claim man and nature are separate, whereas ancient Chinese traditionally conceived of them within a unity. Influenced by ecological values, Western ecotourism paradigms emphasise the natural attributes, whereas Chinese consider the unity of nature and human. Thus, both mass ecotourists separated from mass tourists and elite ecotourists comprise the initial group of Chinese ecotourists. Although the ecological value of ‘the unity of man and Heaven’ born in ancient China was seldom put into social practice, today's mass ecotourism, which is similar to Western su...
61 citations