Red Letters: Translation as Detection in a Sino-Japanese Murder Mystery
In 2004 Japanese author Ashibe Taku published his novel Murder in the Red Chamber, in which he adapted Cao Xueqin’s eighteenth-century Chinese classic Dream of the Red Chamber as a compelling murder mystery. In 2008 I would take on the challenge of translating Ashibe’s novel into English. This requi...
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ScholarWorks@UMass Amherst
2010
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| Online Access: | https://scholarworks.umass.edu/theses/445 https://scholarworks.umass.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1530&context=theses |