Nineteen Ways of Looking at Wang Wei

Nineteen Ways of Looking at Wang Wei: How a Chinese Poem Is Translated

Author	Eliot Weinberger
Language	English, Chinese, French, Spanish
Subject	Translation studies
Published	1987
Publisher	Moyer Bell
Publication place	United States
Pages	53
ISBN	978-0-918-82514-8 (pbk.)
Dewey Decimal	895.113
LC Class	PL2676.A683
Website	https://www.ndbooks.com/book/nineteen-ways-of-looking-at-wang-wei

Nineteen Ways of Looking at Wang Wei: How a Chinese Poem Is Translated is a 1987 study by the American author Eliot Weinberger, with an addendum written by the Mexican poet Octavio Paz. The work analyzes 19 renditions of the Chinese-language nature poem "Deer Grove", which was originally written by the Tang-era poet Wang Wei (699–759). Weinberger compares translations of the poem into English, French, and Spanish, and analyzes the difficulties that are encountered when translating Chinese poetry. Since its publication, the book has been referred to as an essential work on the subject of translation. An updated edition including additional "ways" was published in 2016.