Arthur David Waley CH CBE (born Arthur David Schloss, 19 August 1889 – 27 June 1966) was an English orientalist and sinologist who achieved both popular...
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described as arguably the most popular literary work in East Asia. Arthur Waley's 1942 abridged translation, Monkey, is known in English-speaking countries...
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by Arthur Waley of the sixteenth-century Chinese novel Journey to the West conventionally attributed to Wu Cheng'en of the Ming dynasty. Waley's remains...
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journalist, artist and writer Arthur Waley (born Arthur David Schloss; 1889–1966), English orientalist and sinologist Daniel Waley (1921–2017), British historian...
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incomplete. Since then, complete English translations have been made by Arthur Waley, Edward Seidensticker, Royall Tyler, and Dennis Washburn. The work recounts...
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dramatic efforts often deal with women's themes. The British orientalist Arthur Waley, in his introduction to the 1942 translation of Jin Ping Mei argued that...
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symmetry of the narrative point to a single author. The British orientalist Arthur Waley, writing before recent research, in his Introduction to the 1942 translation...
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many famous translators including Howard Goldblatt, Wolfgang Kubin, Arthur Waley, and Wai-lim Yip. Jonathan Stalling is the curator of Chinese Literature...
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Other notable English translations have been the partial translation by Arthur Waley in 1928, the first complete translation by Ivan Morris in 1967, and Meredith...
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Zeami's. The word aya means twill, but the first English translation by Arthur Waley used the word damask, and this choice is almost invariably preserved...
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De Zoete, Arthur Waley & Walter Spies (1938). Dance and Drama in Bali. Faber and Faber. p. 298. OCLC 459249128. Beryl De Zoete, Arthur Waley & Walter Spies...
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acquired, along with 3,000 horses of middling or lower quality. Sinologist Arthur Waley in his article The Heavenly Horses of Ferghana made the important distinction...
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University Press. p. 236. ISBN 978-981-15-7507-5. Retrieved 9 August 2023. Waley, Arthur (1960). Ballads and Stories from Tung-huang: An Anthology. George Allen...
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Luis Borges, The Total Library: [The Tale of Genji, as translated by Arthur Waley,] is written with an almost miraculous naturalness, and what interests...
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centuries. Its historicity has been disputed: the 20th-century sinologist Arthur Waley considered it a literary work with no historiographical value, but more...
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(Six Persimmons is) passion... congealed into a stupendous calm. — Arthur Waley, It is currently in the collection of the Juko'in subtemple of Daitoku-ji...
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in The Jade Mountain (1939). Although Li was not his preferred poet, Arthur Waley translated a few of his poems into English for the Asiatic Review, and...
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Press. 3/5, 5/6, 9/14, tr. by Arthur Waley (1938), The Analects of Confucius, Vintage, pp. 94–5, 108, 141. Zhao 17, Waley (1938), p. 108. Creel (1970)...
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The English jurist and economist Jacob Waley was their maternal grandfather, while orientalist Arthur Waley was their cousin. Robert was educated at...
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1999, p. 123. Waley (1941), 126-27. Waley (1941), p. 15. Waley (1941), Waley (1941), 126- 130 Waley (1941), 130 Waley (1941), 130-31, Waley refers to this...
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lies primarily in its "faithful description of Mongol tribal life", and Arthur Waley even claimed that the Secret History's "historical value [is] almost...
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known version of the Kutune Shirka progresses any further in the story. Arthur Waley, one of the poem's translators, felt that the yukar seems to "break off"...
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Constant Mean, Pierre Ryckmans (aka Simon Leys) used Middle Way, while Arthur Waley chose Middle Use. Ezra Pound's translations include Unswerving Pivot...
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Press, ISBN 1-55659-120-9 Arthur Waley. Yuan Mei, Eighteenth Century Chinese Poet. London: Allen & Unwin, 1956 Hummel, Arthur W. Sr., ed. (1943). "Yüan...
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saving. Heaven arms with pity those whom it would not see destroyed. Arthur Waley describes these Three Treasures as, "The three rules that formed the...
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Kumasaka (The Robber) is a Noh play from the 15th century attributed by Arthur Waley to Zenchiku Ujinobu, about the notable Heian period bandit Kumasaka no...
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ISBN 978-1-876843-56-4 Waley, Arthur. "Introduction". in Shikibu, Murasaki, The Tale of Genji: A Novel in Six Parts. translated by Arthur Waley. (1960). New York:...
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dedicated to critiques of the failures of Confucianism. The translator Arthur Waley observed that [Tao] means a road, path, way; and hence, the way in which...
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helped him to run the company, which published works by Bertrand Russell, Arthur Waley, Roald Dahl, Lancelot Hogben and Thor Heyerdahl. It became well known...
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that he was much older than either. Early translations include those by Arthur Waley 27 poems by Han-shan, Gary Snyder Cold Mountain Poems, and Burton Watson...
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