逝水年华

Autobiography of Xu Yuanchong, one of the best renowned and most productive Chinese-English/French translators, whose principle of poetic translation, that is, from rhythmic poems to rhythmic poems, made him unparallel in this circle. Relating his youth spent with those figures who had profound influences in various realms during last century in China, to name a few, the Neo-Confucian Fung Yu-lan, famous poet Wen Yiduo and Bian Zhilin, and Nobel Prize winner Yang Zhenning; Side-by-side version.