美国学者Tony Barnstone作为一名翻译家、当代知名诗人,以其忠信的态度、优美的译笔为西方认识中国新时期诗坛贡献良多。相对而言,他对中国古典诗歌的译介并不多,主要集中于他和中国诗人周平合作编、选、译的《中国艳情诗》一书中。此书作为中国古典诗歌英译本的存在,不仅拓宽了英译中国古典诗歌的编选主题范围,也直接叩问着中国文学批评的儒家“正统”对经典的评判标准,对中国古典诗歌作为一个整体的译介与西传,具有值得重视的特殊意义。 As a translator and a famous contemporary poet, American scholar Tony Barnstone, with his loyal attitude and graceful translation, has made a lot of contributions to the West’s recognition of the Chinese poetics in the new era. Relatively speaking, there are not many translations and translations of classical Chinese poetry, focusing mainly on the “Chinese Love Poems” he and the Chinese poet Zhou Ping co-edited, selected and translated. The book, as an English translation of classical Chinese poetry, not only broadened the range of themes for the translation of classical Chinese poetry into English, but also directly asks the critique of Confucian orthodoxy of Chinese literary criticism, A whole translation and introduction of the West, with special significance worthy of attention.