Arthur Waley
Arthur David Waley (born Arthur David Schloss, 19 August 188927 June 1966) was an English orientalist and sinologist who achieved both popular and scholarly acclaim for his translations of Chinese and Japanese poetry. Among his honours were appointment as Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 1952, receiving the Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry in 1953, and being invested as a Member of the Order of the Companions of Honour in 1956.Although highly learned, Waley avoided academic posts and most often wrote for a general audience. He chose not to be a specialist but to translate a wide and personal range of classical literature. Starting in the 1910s and continuing steadily almost until his death in 1966, these translations started with poetry, such as ''A Hundred and Seventy Chinese Poems'' (1918) and ''Japanese Poetry: The Uta'' (1919), then an equally wide range of novels, such as ''The Tale of Genji'' (1925–26), an 11th-century Japanese work, and ''Monkey'', from 16th-century China. Waley also presented and translated Chinese philosophy, wrote biographies of literary figures, and maintained a lifelong interest in both Asian and Western paintings.
A 2004 profile by fellow sinologist E. Bruce Books called Waley "the great transmitter of the high literary cultures of China and Japan to the English-reading general public; the ambassador from East to West in the first half of the 20th century", and went on to say that he was "self-taught, but reached remarkable levels of fluency, even erudition, in both languages. It was a unique achievement, possible (as he himself later noted) only in that time, and unlikely to be repeated." Provided by Wikipedia
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The Opium War through Chinese eyes. by Waley, Arthur
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An introduction to the study of Chinese painting. by Waley, Arthur
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Three ways of thought in ancient China / by Waley, Arthur
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The nō plays of Japan. by Waley, Arthur
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Translations from the Chinese, by Waley, Arthur
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Chinese poems / by Waley, Arthur
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Yuan Mei : eighteenth century Chinese poet / by Waley, Arthur
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Three ways of thought in ancient China / by Waley, Arthur
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The way and its power : a study of the Tao tê ching and its place in Chinese thought / by Waley, Arthur
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The real Tripitaka, and other pieces / by Waley, Arthur
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The life and times of Po Chü-i, 772-846 AD / by Waley, Arthur
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The red cockatoo & other songs. by Britten, Benjamin, 1913-1976, Waley, Arthur
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The red cockatoo & other songs. by Britten, Benjamin, 1913-1976, Waley, Arthur
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Plucking the rushes: for voice and piano / by Orr, C. W. 1893-1976
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Plucking the rushes : three-part song with pianoforte accompaniment / by Armstrong, Thomas, 1898-1994
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The way and its power : a study of the Tao tê ching and its place in Chinese thought / by Laozi
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The pillow-book of Sei Shōnagon / by Sei Shōnagon, approximately 967-
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Plucking the Rushes : voice and string quartet / by Keats, Horace, 1895-1945
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Ballads and stories from Tun-huang : [an anthology] /
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