Burton Watson (1925–2017)
Autor(a) de Chuang Tzu: Basic Writings
About the Author
Burton DeWitt Watson was born in New Rochelle, New York on June 13, 1925. When he was 17 years old, he dropped out of high school and joined the Navy. He experienced Japan through his weekly shore leaves while stationed at Yokosuka Naval Base in 1945. After returning to the United States, he mostrar mais received a bachelor's degree in Chinese in 1949 and a master's degree in Chinese in 1951 from Columbia University. He spent time learning Japanese as a graduate student at Kyoto University before receiving a doctorate in Chinese in 1956 from Columbia. He has taught English at Doshisha University in Kyoto and Chinese at Stanford University and Columbia. He became a translator of Chinese and Japanese literature and poetry. His numerous translations included Cold Mountain: 100 Poems by the Tang Poet Han-shan, Han Fei Tzu: Basic Writings, The Complete Works of Chuang Tzu, and The Tso Chuan: Selections from China's Oldest Narrative History. His collections included Early Chinese Literature, Chinese Lyricism: Shih Poetry from the Second to the Twelfth Century, From the Country of Eight Islands: An Anthology of Japanese Poetry, and The Columbia Book of Chinese Poetry: From Early Times to the 13th Century. He received Columbia University's Translation Center's Gold Medal Award in 1979, the PEN Translation Prize in 1981 and 1995, and the Ralph Manheim Medal for Translation in 2015. He died on April 1, 2017 at the age of 91. mostrar menos
Séries
Obras de Burton Watson
From the Country of Eight Islands: An Anthology of Japanese Poetry (1981) — Editor; Tradutor — 105 cópias
Courtier And Commoner In Ancient China: Selections From The History Of The Former Han by Pan Ku (1974) 32 cópias
The Demon at Agi Bridge and Other Japanese Tales (Translations from the Asian Classics) (2010) — Tradutor — 21 cópias
Japanese Literature in Chinese: Poetry and Prose in Chinese by Japanese Writers (Translations from the Oriental… (1975) 3 cópias
KUTAI ZHONGGUO WENXUE 1 exemplar(es)
Japanese Literature in Chinese : Volume 1 Poetry and Prose in Chinese By Japanese Writers of the Early Period 1 exemplar(es)
Grass Hill 1 exemplar(es)
Buddhism, The First Millennium 1 exemplar(es)
Ssu-ma Ch'ien, Grand Historian of China. 1 exemplar(es)
Vimalakirti Sutra 1 exemplar(es)
Selected Poems of Su Tung-P'o by Su Tung-P'o 1 exemplar(es)
Records of the Grand Historian of China, Volume I, Early Years of the Han Dynasty, 209 to 141 B.C. (1961) 1 exemplar(es)
Zen Teachings of Master Lin-chi 1 exemplar(es)
Associated Works
Anthology of Japanese Literature: From the Earliest Era to the Mid-Nineteenth Century (1955) — Tradutor — 727 cópias
Modern Japanese Literature: From 1868 to the Present Day (1956) — Tradutor, algumas edições — 287 cópias
Records of the historian : chapters from the Shih chi of Ssu-ma Ch'ien (1969) — Tradutor — 39 cópias
Grass Hill: Poems and Prose by the Japanese Monk Gensei (Translations from the Asian Classics) (1983) — algumas edições — 3 cópias
Montemora No. 1 — Contribuinte — 2 cópias
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Conhecimento Comum
- Nome de batismo
- Watson, Burton DeWitt
- Data de nascimento
- 1925-06-13
- Data de falecimento
- 2017-04-01
- Sexo
- male
- Nacionalidade
- USA
- Local de nascimento
- New Rochelle, New York, USA
- Local de falecimento
- Kamagaya, Chiba Prefecture, Japan
- Educação
- Columbia University
- Premiações
- Columbia University Translation Center Gold Medal Award (1979)
American Academy of Arts and Letters Academy Award (Literature ∙ 2005)
PEN/Ralph Manheim Medal for Translation (2015)
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- Avaliação
- 4.1
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- ISBNs
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