#kuhungming — Public Fediverse posts

> I took the paper and looked at the Chinese characters. They made an agreeable pattern upon it.
"Won't you also give me a translation?"
"Tradutore—tradittore," he answered. "You cannot expect me to betray myself. Ask one of your English friends. Those who know most about China know nothing, but you will at least find one who is competent to give you a rendering of a few rough and simple lines."
https://www.douban.com/group/topic/40729214/
#SomersetMaugham and #KuHungMing to #IfThisBeTreason by #GregoryRabassa

> THE present volume is a translation of one of the four Confucian canonical books called the Chung Yung, which has been translated by Dr. Legge as the ‘‘ Doctrine of the Mean.’ The Chinese word Chung means central—hence right, true, fair and square; and Yung means common, ordinary—hence universal. The two Chinese words therefore mean the true, fair and square, universal standard of right ; in short, the common-sense of right.
https://archive.org/details/conductoflifeoru0000unse
#中庸 #ChungYun #JamesLegge #KuHungMing

> Using the resources of a writer, he fought the world across the five continents. These were driven by his anguish and valiance. If Ku Hung-ming were to witness the Cultural Revolution and the Simplified Chinese Characters unleashed by the communists decades later that completely devastated Classical Chinese Culture, how much more would be his rage?..
https://www.chinese-heritage.com/index.php/%E8%B3%A6%E6%A2%85%E8%8A%B1%E9%A4%A8%E6%B8%85%E8%B3%9E-2/%E6%9D%B1%E5%AD%B8%E8%A5%BF%E6%BC%B8/item/340-ku-hung-ming-%E8%BE%9C%E9%B4%BB%E9%8A%98-,-a-scholar-of-east-and-west,-and-papers-from-a-viceroy%E2%80%99s-yamen.html
#KuHungMing #GuHongMing

> Ku Hung-ming is only a picturesque instance of a person who is born a rebel.. Ku Hung-ming is witty. But his wit turns invariably upon a paradox. Now the essence of a paradox is that it should surprise by the opposition of its ideas to common notions. Here again, Ku Hung-ming shows up the quality of his mind – a mind that lives by resistance to what is generally accepted..

https://thebamboosea.wordpress.com/2019/09/06/the-late-mr-ku-hung-ming-%E8%BE%9C%E9%B4%BB%E9%8A%98/
#WenYuanNing ( #OonGuanNeng ) on #GuHongMing ( #KuHungMing ) #ARebel