Jun 25
China Fiction Quote of the Week: Lin Shaohua on Rendering Murakami in Chinese
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Author and translator (below)
Lin Shaohua (林少华), who translated Murakami Haruki’s writing into Chinese for two decades, on how he recreates the rhythm of the Japanese original in his rendition:
Murakami says that he learned about rhythm from music, especially jazz. But I don’t know jazz, so where does the rhythm of my translations come from? Principally from the cadence of ancient Chinese.
July 7th, 2010 at 12:53 pm
Jazz+Japan, Chinese+ancientQin ：））