Burton Watson (1925–2017)
Auteur van Chuang Tzu: Basic Writings
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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 toon meer 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. toon minder
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From the Country of Eight Islands: An Anthology of Japanese Poetry (1981) — Redacteur; Vertaler — 105 exemplaren
Courtier And Commoner In Ancient China: Selections From The History Of The Former Han by Pan Ku (1974) 32 exemplaren
The Demon at Agi Bridge and Other Japanese Tales (Translations from the Asian Classics) (2010) — Vertaler — 21 exemplaren
Japanese Literature in Chinese: Poetry and Prose in Chinese by Japanese Writers (Translations from the Oriental… (1975) 3 exemplaren
KUTAI ZHONGGUO WENXUE 1 exemplaar
Grass Hill 1 exemplaar
Buddhism, The First Millennium 1 exemplaar
Ssu-ma Ch'ien, Grand Historian of China. 1 exemplaar
Vimalakirti Sutra 1 exemplaar
Selected Poems of Su Tung-P'o by Su Tung-P'o 1 exemplaar
Records of the Grand Historian of China, Volume I, Early Years of the Han Dynasty, 209 to 141 B.C. (1961) 1 exemplaar
Zen Teachings of Master Lin-chi 1 exemplaar
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De volledige geschriften het grote klassieke boek van het taoïsme (1968) — Vertaler, sommige edities — 896 exemplaren
Anthology of Japanese Literature: From the Earliest Era to the Mid-Nineteenth Century (1955) — Vertaler — 731 exemplaren
Modern Japanese Literature: From 1868 to the Present Day (1956) — Vertaler, sommige edities — 287 exemplaren
Records of the historian : chapters from the Shih chi of Ssu-ma Ch'ien (1969) — Vertaler — 39 exemplaren
Grass Hill: Poems and Prose by the Japanese Monk Gensei (Translations from the Asian Classics) (1983) — sommige edities — 3 exemplaren
Montemora No. 1 — Medewerker — 2 exemplaren
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- Watson, Burton DeWitt
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- 1925-06-13
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- 2017-04-01
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- USA
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- New Rochelle, New York, USA
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- Kamagaya, Chiba Prefecture, Japan
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- Columbia University
- Prijzen en onderscheidingen
- 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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