title: Ways of Conveying the Aesthetic Value of Tang Poetry in Russian Translations: A Case Study of Three Translations of Li Bai’s Poem “Thoughts on a Quiet Night”
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metadata.value: Gu, Junling
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metadata.value: Zhang, Qian
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metadata.value: 2024-02-06T11:03:02Z
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metadata.value: 2023-09
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metadata.value: Gu Junling, Zhang Qian. Ways of Conveying the Aesthetic Value of Tang Poetry in Russian Translations: A Case Study of Three Translations of Li Bai’s Poem “Thoughts on a Quiet Night”. Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. Asian and African Studies, 2023, vol. 15, issue 3, pp. 515–529. https://doi.org/10.21638/spbu13.2023.305 (In Russian)
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metadata.value: https://doi.org/10.21638/spbu13.2023.305
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metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/44824
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metadata.value: Russian and Chinese languages belong to different language families, which makes it difficult
  to translate from one language to the other. The translation of one poetic language into another
  without making any changes is an especially difficult task, which is why conveying the
  aesthetic value of the original poem becomes the embodiment of an ideal adequate translation.
  The aesthetic values of Tang poetry lie in the integration of sound, thought form and
  the poetic world, that is, in the beauty of rhythm, the accuracy of the line and the expression
  of feelings depicted in the text. Rhythm, rhyme and poetic dimension belong to the form of
  poetry; the meaning of words, sentences and text together form the meaning of poetry; and
  the picture of life depicted in the text makes up the poetic world. If the Russian translation of
  Tang poetry can achieve conformity of form, equivalence of meaning and consistency of the
  poetic world with the original poetry, then it will be able to realize the aesthetic value of the
  original poetry and will relate to the ideal complete translation of poetry. The poem “Thought
  on a Quiet Night” is one of Li Bai’s masterpieces and it is included in Chinese language textbooks
  for elementary school. Due to the high aesthetic value of this poem, it has become a
  compulsory poem for Chinese elementary school students to study. To date, there are eight
  translations of this poem in Russia. This article mainly considers the translations by V. A. Alekseev,
  L. N. Menshikov, and V. F. Pereleshin. Through the comparative analysis on these three
  versions about the “Thoughts on a Quiet Night”, it shows that different translators with different
  aesthetic aspirations may produce disparate translation.
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metadata.value: This article was written with the support of a grant from the Henan Foundation for Humanities and
  Social Sciences in 2023, “Translations of ancient Chinese poetry into Russian: a critical analysis and search
  for new ways of their dissemination in the Russian-speaking environment in the digital age”.
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metadata.value: ru
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metadata.name: dc.publisher
metadata.value: St Petersburg State University
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metadata.value: Vestnik of St Petersburg University. Asian and African Studies;Volume 15; Issue 3
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Russian translation of Tang poetry
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metadata.value: aesthetic value
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metadata.value: poetic form
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metadata.value: meaning of poetry
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metadata.value: poetic world
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metadata.value: Thoughts on a Quiet Night
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metadata.value: Ways of Conveying the Aesthetic Value of Tang Poetry in Russian Translations: A Case Study of Three Translations of Li Bai’s Poem “Thoughts on a Quiet Night”
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