{"id":5456,"date":"2016-02-26T15:01:51","date_gmt":"2016-02-26T09:01:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hsu.edu.hk\/?p=5456"},"modified":"2024-01-16T12:06:26","modified_gmt":"2024-01-16T04:06:26","slug":"1422-provost-office-20160620150832","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hsu.edu.hk\/en\/1422-provost-office-20160620150832\/","title":{"rendered":"Sin Wai Kin Honorary Professor of Chinese Culture and Translation  John Minford on Culture and Translation Series  Master Class \u2013 Translation of The Letters of Fu Lei to his Son"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div class=\"art-article\">\n<p><strong>26 February 2016<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">The School of Translation had the honour of hosting a series of public lectures and master classes from mid-February to mid-March by Professor John Minford, world-renowned sinologist and literary translator. Having translated into English prominent works in Chinese culture such as <i>The Story of the Stone<\/i>\u00a0(with David Hawkes),<i>The Art of War, Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio and the I Ching<\/i>, Professor Minford has the hands-on, in-depth experience to speak on \u201cculture and translation\u201d with the level of authority which few in today\u2019s world can attain.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">In the first master class, Professor Minford emphasised the importance of extensive reading and writing in the self-cultivation of a translator. He then quoted excerpts from The Letters of Fu Lei to His Son to illustrate ways of manoeuvring the process of translation to attain his goal of making the readers enjoy the translation.<\/p>\n<div style=\"margin: 0 auto; width: 630px; height: 360px;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"margin: 0 auto;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/JnWJCdUUAws?hd=1\" width=\"630\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"26 February 2016 The School of Translation had the honour of hosting a series of public lectures and master classes from mid-February to mid-March by Professor John Minford, world-renowned sinologist and literary translator. Having translated into English prominent works in Chinese culture such as The Story of the Stone\u00a0(with David Hawkes),The Art of War, Strange [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[10,111],"tags":[],"topics":[],"month":[288],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hsu.edu.hk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5456"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hsu.edu.hk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hsu.edu.hk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hsu.edu.hk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hsu.edu.hk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5456"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.hsu.edu.hk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5456\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13707,"href":"https:\/\/www.hsu.edu.hk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5456\/revisions\/13707"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hsu.edu.hk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hsu.edu.hk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hsu.edu.hk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5456"},{"taxonomy":"topics","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hsu.edu.hk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topics?post=5456"},{"taxonomy":"month","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hsu.edu.hk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/month?post=5456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}