Interview with Julia Lovell on her new translation of Journey to the West

By Eric Abrahamsen, published

Not content with the complete works of Lu Xun, Julia Lovell has taken on another momentous project in a new translation of Journey to the West, aka Monkey King. Watch as she joins Emily Jones and Dylan King in conversation about the translation process, and the story's place in Chinese and world culture.

Bonus feature: read Nicky Harman's review of the translation on the Asian Books Blog

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Here's my review of Monkey King on Asian Books Blog: http://www.asianbooksblog.com/2021/02/julia-lovells-new-translation-of-monkey.html, which looks at how the translation manages to be so wonderfully funny. (It really is :-)

Nicky Harman, February 16, 2021, 11:45p.m.

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