The Translator’s Mirror for the Romantic : Cao Xueqin's Dream and David Hawkes' Stone (Paperback)

Contents,

List of Figures,

Preface,

Some Words Before the Curtain,

Prologue: the Hawkesian World,

1. "Profound Scholarship and Patient Research": Sinology as Foundation,
2. ‘To Change or Not to Change, That is the Question’: Construction of Base Text,
3. "Comes to Life on the Page": Sound, Shape and Style in Translation,
4. "So Much Ink Splashed for Fun":Playfulness and Imagination,
5. "The Key to Good Translation is Revision": Manuscripts, Notebooks and Typescripts,
6. "Little Private Jokes": Western Literary Allusions in a Chinese Novel,

Epilogue: "A Text that Rumbles with Echoes and Reminiscences",

Bibliography,

Index