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Did you read it in the original Chinese, or the English translation? I haven't read either, but it's possible that the English version misses a lot of nuance fr
by QuercusMax 9y ago
Did you read it in the original Chinese, or the English translation? I haven't read either, but it's possible that the English version misses a lot of nuance from the original version.
(It's also quite possible the original is crap, and the translation is doing a very adequate job.)
- monochromatic 9y agoI actually thought the translator did a pretty good job (not to say that I can read Chinese or do a direct comparison). My only complaint was that I wish they'd westernized the names--they all sound too similar to my American ears.
- mattmanser 9y agoI felt the translation felt very awkward at times. Just scanning some articles about Ken Liu, it was his decision to try and stick to the original literary style, I think a lot of it came from that. In a lot of ways I liked it because the entire thinking behind the book was a different cultural thinking. But the resulting style is definitely a bit awkward in English and sometimes it was a little bit of a slog.