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I started dreaming of what it might be like to study traditional Chinese literature at the University of Chicago, where Dr. Roy still worked tirelessly on his translation. My advisor patiently helped me with reading through some of the novel in Chinese翻譯社 one chapter per week for two semesters. It was the first Chinese literature that captured my attention so deeply that I found myself caring about the characters. Laughing at their jokes. Feeling sad at their deaths.

 The Plum in the Golden Vase or, Chin P'ing Mei, Volume Two:
The Rivals
Translated by David Tod Roy.

In this second of a planned five-volume series, David Roy provides a complete and annotated translation of the famous Chin P'ing Mei, an anonymous sixteenth-century Chinese novel that focuses on the domestic life of His-men Ch'ing翻譯社 a corrupt, upwardly mobile merchant in a provincial town, who maintains a harem of six wives and concubines. This work, known primarily for its erotic realism, is also a landmark in the development of narrative art--not only from a specifically Chinese perspective but in a world-historical context.

One of the Chin P’ing Mei’s many wonders is how it immerses its readers into a complex, dizzying world of 16th century Chinese color, food翻譯社 smell翻譯社 sound翻譯社 song, poem, and even a couple baojuan. In order to understand that world and faithfully render it into English翻譯社 Dr. Roy had to first understand all the pieces that fed into the novel’s plot. As such翻譯社 his office is packed, floor to ceiling翻譯社 with thousands of books gathered in the years since his teenage shopping expeditions in Nanjing. Even a few from then.

Without a doubt, I would not be where I am without Dr. Roy’s work.Just last month翻譯社 the New York Times published the article I quote from above:
David Tod Roy Completes His Translation of ‘Chin P’ing Mei’

If you want to know the outcome of these events翻譯社
Pray consult the story related in the following chapter

In Dr. Roy’s words:

浏覽過程當中他意想到《金瓶梅》包羅了良多摘自更初期作品的材料翻譯他花了很多時候核實小說中的詩詞，鄙諺等，而且製作了一萬張卡片翻譯

 

 

他在1982年入手下手翻譯《金瓶梅》，在2012年完成了翻譯工作翻譯最後一卷在2013年9月出書翻譯

Crowning nearly 50 years of scholarship, David Tod Roy, professor emeritus in East Asian Languages and Civilizations, has published the fifth and final volume of his translation of The Plum in the Golden Vase or, Chin P’ing Mei. The late sixteenth-century novel, written anonymously, is considered a masterpiece of Ming-era Chinese literature.

 

Since Princeton University Press released Roy’s first volume of the translation in 1993, scholars have praised his masterful translation and painstaking research. Along with extensive annotations, Roy has provided the first complete European-language version of the intricate novel, which chronicles the rise and fall of a corrupt middle-class merchant翻譯社 his six wives翻譯社 and his concubines.

 

This past spring and summer翻譯社 Roy, 80翻譯社 spoke about his lifelong affair with the Chin P’ing Mei in interviews and at a series of workshops with graduate students. His reflections—taken from those conversations—are excerpted here.

 

翻譯公司們台灣的佛光大學曾於20151214 舉行芝加哥大學聲譽退休傳授芮效衛(David Tod Roy)贈書特展會很惋惜因故芮傳授沒法再度蒞臨台灣.芮傳授的死使得國際間研究中國文學的人材翻譯社越來越少數,他是真實的中國通,從小在中國社會成長,歷經各類政權翻譯社戰爭,時空轉移翻譯社他都親自經歷事實,親身體驗到人世間的喜翻譯社怒,哀翻譯社樂,悲翻譯社歡,離翻譯社合和街市商人佈衣的生涯和社會實際，芮氏的平生的光陰是為中國而生而活,鉦昱翻譯社們落空了如許子的故交翻譯社不堪噓唏,人生少之又少的時期,在芮氏一生都親臨,希望他的下世投身為中國人好好ˇ的再度品味.

數年後他的怙恃也從大陸去了香港。當朝鮮戰爭爆發後，他同他的弟弟被怙恃送回美國。他目擊了日軍飛機轟炸造成多量佈衣滅亡的場景。

在太平洋戰爭爆發後，芮效衛同怙恃在川。

 

 

 

 

 

妙齡少女體似酥，腰間仗劍斬愚夫。
玉階孤單墜秋露，月照那時歌舞處。當時歌舞人不回，化為本日西陵灰

中文流利的芮效儉認為，中文好對成為“中國通”是有助益的，但不是最主要的，美國有些很好的中國問題專家，中文未必很好，更重要的是優秀的判斷力，能從分歧角度看問題。
 1956年從普林斯頓大學歷史系畢業的芮效儉喜好從歷史的角度，鑽研這兩種論調。他認為，研究中國突起可以透過其它大國崛起的歷史來發現紀律中國要連結在和平成長的軌道上會更困難翻譯他認可，中國面臨的地緣情況比美國複雜很多，有不少國土爭端，若何使和平成長的概念變成現實步履，非常困難翻譯
對於美中關係，芮效儉認為，最要緊的是避免美中兩個大國走向匹敵，.

美國有名漢學家、芝加哥大學聲譽退休傳授芮效衛(David Tod Roy)20160530日於芝城過世，1933年在南京出生的他，於1982到2016年間，投注30年心力，完成中國四大奇書之一「金瓶梅」(The Plum in the Golden Vase)全五冊英文翻譯翻譯

Praise for Volume 1: "[I]t is time to remind ourselves that The Plum in the Golden Vase is not just about sex, whether the numerous descriptions of sexual acts throughout the novel be viewed as titillating, harshly realistic, or, in Mr. Roy's words, intended 'to express in the most powerful metaphor available to him the author's contempt for the sort of persons who indulge in them.' The novel is a sprawling panorama of life and times in urban China翻譯社 allegedly set safely in the Sung dynasty, but transparently contemporary to the author's late sixteenth-century world, as scores of internal references demonstrate. The eight hundred or so men, women翻譯社 and children who appear in the book cover a breath-taking variety of human types, and encompass pretty much every imaginable mood and genre--from sadism to tenderness, from light humor to philosophical musings翻譯社 from acute social commentary to outrageous satire."

他曾說他第一次接觸16世紀的中國小說《金瓶梅》是在1949-50年和怙恃在南京生涯的時辰。