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Waley, Arthur

(Tunbridge Wells 1889-1966 Highgate, London) : Sinologe, Dozent für chinesische Lyrik an der School of Oriental Studies, University of London

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Schloss, Arthur David

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Index of Names : Occident / Sinology and Asian Studies : Europe : Great Britain

Chronology Entries (17)

# Year Text Linked Data
1 1907-1910 Arthur Waley studiert Classics am King's College in Cambridge.
2 1910 Arthur Waley verliert auf einem Auge das Sehvermögen. Er reist nach Norwegen, dann nach Sevilla um bei seinem Onkel, der eine Export-Firma hat, zu arbeiten, was er aufgibt.
3 1912-1913 Arthur Waley arbeitet im Department of Prints and Drawings des British Museum.
4 1913-1929 Arthur Waley ist Mitarbeiter des Department of Oriental Prints and Drawings am British Museum. Seine Hauptaufgabe ist die Katalogisierung der Malereien aus Dunhuang von Aurel Stein. Er beginnt Chinesisch und Japanisch zu studieren.
  • Document: Hawkes, David. Obituary of Dr. Arthur Waley. In : Asia major ; vol. 12, pt. 2 (1966). (AWal1, Publication)
  • Document: Oxford dictionary of national biography : http://www.oxforddnb.com. (ODNB, Publication)
5 1918 Pound, Ezra. Books current : One hundred and seventy Chinese poems by Arthur Waley [ID D8884]. In : Future 2 (1918). [Review].
The book is certainly the fullest illustration of Chinese poetic subject matter available in English. There are passages undeniably beautiful. The one lack is the sense of intensity which should hold the reader's attention.
  • Document: Xie, Ming. Ezra Pound and the appropriation of Chinese poetry : Cathay, trnslation, and imagism. (New York, N.Y. : Garland, 1999). (Comparative literature and cultural studies ; vol. 6. Garland reference library of the humanities ; vol. 2042). S. 58. (Pou70, Publication)
  • Person: Pound, Ezra
6 1919 Advertisement of One hundred and seventy Chinese poems. Transl. by Arthur Waley [ID D8884] in The New Republic ; 31 May (1919).
Alfred Knopf got a letter from Amy Lowell (22 May 1919) :
"No better translations have so far appeared of Chinese poetry. He [Waley] has given the real feeling of Chinese poetry, its clarity, its suggestion, its perfec humanity. There is no other translation of Chinese poetry now available with anything like the merit of this."
The sentence which Alfred Knopf from the letter excised was : "I have been working lately on Chinese poetry with a friend of mine who lives in China, so I know whereof I speak, and while I do not always agree with Mr. Waley's renderings of those poems with which I am familiar, he has done what nobody else has."
7 1920 Arthur Waley verkehrt im englischen Literatenkreis und wird selbst eine anerkannte literarische Persönlichkeit.
8 1922 Waley, Arthur. Review of Fir-flower tablets by Florence Wheelock Ayscough ; English versions by Amy Lowell. In : Literary review of The New York Evening Post ; Febr. 4 (1922).
"It is a real book of Chinese poetry, it is worth criticizing".
9 1923 Ayscough, Florence. Review of The Temple. Translated by Arthur Waley.
"I don't suppose that Waley himself would lay claim to be a poet, nor to being a writer of great merit."
10 1930-1966 Arthur Waley arbeitet als Gelehrter und Übersetzer.
  • Document: Hawkes, David. Obituary of Dr. Arthur Waley. In : Asia major ; vol. 12, pt. 2 (1966). (AWal1, Publication)
11 1938 Arthur Waley erhält den Ehrendoktor der University of Aberdeen.
  • Document: University of Aberdeen (Aber, Organisation)
12 1945 Arthur Waley wird honory fellow des King's College Cambridge und Mitglied der British Academy.
13 1948 Arthur Waley wird Honorary lecturer in Chinese poetry der School of Oriental and African Studies.
14 1949-1966 Arthur Waley ist Mitherausgeber der Asia major.
  • Document: Asien-Orient-Institut Universität Zürich (AOI, Organisation)
15 1951 Arthur Waley erhält den Ehrendoktor für Literatur der Encaenia, University of Oxford.
  • Document: University of Oxford (OU, Organisation)
16 1953 Arthur Waley erhält die Queen's medal for poetry für seine Übersetzungen chinesischer Lyrik.
  • Document: Hawkes, David. Obituary of Dr. Arthur Waley. In : Asia major ; vol. 12, pt. 2 (1966). (AWal1, Publication)
17 1955 Arthur Waley wird Mitglied der American Oriental Society.

Bibliography (29)

# Year Bibliographical Data Type / Abbreviation Linked Data
1 1916 Chinese poems. [Translated by] Arthur Waley. (London : Privately printed by Lowe Brothers, 1916).
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Waley, Arthur. Chinesische Lyrik aus zwei Jahrtausenden. Ins Deutsche übertragen von Franziska Meister-Weidner. (Hamburg : V. Schröder, 1951). 		Publication / AWal10
2 1917 Po, Chü-i [Bo, Juyi]. Thirty-eight poems by Po Chü-i. Transl. by Arthur Waley. In : Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African studies ; vol. 1, issue 1 (1917). Publication / AWal30
  • Cited by: Asien-Orient-Institut Universität Zürich (AOI, Organisation)
  • Person: Bo, Juyi
3 1918 One hundred and seventy Chinese poems. Translated by Arthur Waley. (London : Constable and Co., 1918). = A hundred and seventy Chinese poems.
http://www.gutenberg.org/files/42290/42290-h/42290-h.htm. 		Publication / AWal14
4 1919 Waley, Arthur. The poet Li Po, A.D. 701-762. (London : East and West, 1919). [Li Bo].
http://www.gutenberg.org/files/43274/43274-h/43274-h.htm. 		Publication / AWal17
5 1919 More translations from the Chinese. [Translated] by Arthur Waley. (London : G. Allen & Unwin, 1919).
http://www.gutenberg.org/files/16500/16500-h/16500-h.htm. 		Publication / AWal29
6 1922 Waley, Arthur. An index of Chinese artists represented in the Sub-Department of Oriental Prints and Drawings in the British Museum. (London : British Museum, 1922). Publication / WALA1
  • Cited by: Walravens, Hartmut. "Ostasiatische Zeitschrift" (1912-1943), "Mitteilungen der Gesellschaft für Ostasiatische Kunst" (1926-1943) : Bibliographie und Register. (Wiesbaden : Harrassowitz, 2000). (Orientalistik Bibliographien und Dokumentationen ; Bd. 10). (WAL 10, Published)
7 1922 Waley, Arthur. Zen buddhism and its relation to art. (London : Luzac, 1922).
http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/webbin/gutbook/lookup?num=43273. 		Publication / AWal23
8 1923 Waley, Arthur. An introduction to the study of Chinese painting. (New York, N.Y. : Scribner, 1923). Publication / AWal16
9 1923 The Temple : and other poems. Translated by Arthur Waley. (London : G. Allen & Unwin, 1923). Publication / AWal22
10 1924-1925 The yearbook of Oriental art and culture. Ed. by Arthur Waley. (London : E. Benn, 1924-1925). = Oriental art and culture : a study of Indian, Chinese, and Japanese art. [Ed.] Arthur Waley. Vol. 1-2. Reprint. (New Delhi : Cosmo, 1981). Vol. 1 : Text. Vol. 2 : Plates.]. Publication / AWal 7
11 1927 Poems from the Chinese. [Translated by] Arthur Waley. (London : E. Benn, 1927).
http://www.gutenberg.org/files/43274/43274-h/43274-h.htm. 		Publication / AWal26
12 1931 Waley, Arthur. A catalogue of paintings recovered from Tun-huang by Sir Aurel Stein : preserved in the Du-Department of Oriental Prints and Drawings in the British Museum, and in the Museum of Central Asian Antiquities, Delhi. (London : Printed by order of the Trustees of the British Museum and of the government of India, 1931). [Dunhuang]. Publication / AWal11
13 1931 Li, Chih-ch'ang. The travels of an alchemist : the journey of the taoist Ch'ang-ch'un from China to the Hindukush at the summons of Chingiz Khan. Recorded by his disciple Li Chih-ch'ang ; translated with an introduction by Arthur Waley. (London : Routledge, 1931). Übersetzung von Li, Zhichang. Changchun zhen ren xi you ji. (Lingshi : Yang shi kan ben, 1847). 长春眞人西游记 Publication / AWal19
14 1934 Waley, Arthur. The way and its power : a study of the Tao te ching and its place in Chinese thought. (London : Allen and Unwin, 1934). [Laozi. Dao de jing]. Publication / AWal6
15 1935 Select Chinese verses = Ying yi Zhongguo ge shi xuan. Translated by Herbert A. Giles and Arthur Waley. (Shanghai : Commercial Press, 1935). Publication / Gil3
16 1937 The book of songs. Translated from the Chinese by Arthur Waley. (London : G. Allen & Unwin, 1937). [Shi jing]. Publication / AWal5
17 1938 The Analects of Confucius. Translated and annotated by Arthur Waley. (London : G. Allen & Unwin, 1938). [Lun yu]. Publication / AWal9
18 1939 Waley, Arthur. Three ways of thought in ancient China. (London : G. Allen & Unwin, 1939). [Zhuangzi, Mengzi, Hanfeizi].
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Waley, Arthur. Lebensweisheit im alten China. (Hamburg : Schröder, 1947). 		Publication / AWal18
19 1941 Translations from the Chinese. [Translated] by Arthur Waley ; illustrated by Cyrus LeRoy Baldridge. (New York, N.Y. : A.A. Knopf, 1941). Publication / AWal21
20 1942 Wu, Ch'eng-en. Monkey. Translated from the Chinese by Arthur Waley. (London : Allen & Unwin, 1942). = Der rebellische Affe : die Reise nach dem Westen : ein chinesischer Roman. Nach der englischen Ausg. von Arthur Waley übersetzt ; mit einem Essay Zum Verständnis des Werkes von Hellmut Wilhelm. (Reinbek bei Hamburg : Rowohlt, 1961). (Rowohlts Klassiker der Literatur. Östliche Philosophie und Literatur ; Bd. 2). [Wu, Cheng'en]. Publication / AWal4
21 1948 Chinese poems : selected from 170 Chinese poems, more translations from the Chinese, The temple and The book of songs. Arthur Waley. (London : G. Allen and Unwin, 1948). [Shi jing]. Publication / AWal13
22 1949 Waley, Arthur. The life and times of Po Chü-i, 772-846 A.D. (New York, N.Y. : Macmillan, 1949). [Bo Juyi]. Publication / AWal8
23 1950 Waley, Arthur. The poetry and career of Li Po, 701-762 A.D. (London : G. Allen & Unwin, 1950). [Li Bo]. Publication / AWal24
24 1952 Waley, Arthur. The real Tripitaka, and other pieces. (New York, N.Y. : Macmillan, 1952). Publication / AWal25
25 1955 Ch'ü, Yüan. The nine songs : a study of shamanism in ancient China. Ed. by Arthur Waley. (London : G. Allen & Unwin, 1955). [Qu Yuan].
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Qu, Yuan. Die neun Gesänge; eine Studie über Schamanismus im alten China. Ed. and transl. By Arthur Waley. (Hamburg : M. von Schröder, 1957). 		Publication / AWal27
26 1956 Waley, Arthur. Yuan Mei, eighteenth century Chinese poet. (London : G. Allen & Unwin, 1956). Publication / AWal28
27 1958 Waley, Arthur. The Opium war through Chinese eyes. (London : Allen & Unwin, 1958). Publication / AWal20
28 1960 Ballads and stories from Tun-huang : an anthology. [Ed. by] Arthur Waley. (London : Allen & Unwin, 1960). Publication / AWal15
29 1963 Waley, Arthur. The secret history of the Mongols : and other pieces. (London : Allen & Unwin, 1963). Publication / AWal12

Secondary Literature (7)

# Year Bibliographical Data Type / Abbreviation Linked Data
1 1959 Schindler, Bruno. Arthur Waley anniversary volume. (London : P. Lund, Humphries, 1959). In : Asia major ; vol. 7 (1959). Periodical / Schi2
2 1966 Hawkes, David. Obituary of Dr. Arthur Waley. In : Asia major ; vol. 12, pt. 2 (1966). Publication / AWal1
  • Cited by: Asien-Orient-Institut Universität Zürich (AOI, Organisation)
3 1973 Tatlow, Antony. Stalking the dragon : Pound, Waley, and Brecht. In : Comparative literature ; 25 (1973).
http://www.jstor.org/stable/pdfplus/1770068.pdf. 		Publication / Pou87
  • Cited by: Asien-Orient-Institut Universität Zürich (AOI, Organisation)
  • Person: Brecht, Bertolt
  • Person: Pound, Ezra
4 1982 Johns, Francis A. Arthur Waley and Amy Lowell : a note. In : Journal of the Rutgers University Libraries, vol. 44, no 1 (1982).
http://reaper64.scc-net.rutgers.edu/journals/index.php/jrul/article/view/1614/3054. 		Publication / Low2
  • Cited by: Asien-Orient-Institut Universität Zürich (AOI, Organisation)
  • Person: Johns, Francis A.
  • Person: Lowell, Amy
5 1988-1989 Eoyang, Eugene. Waley or Pound ? : the dynamics of genre in translation. In : Tamkang review ; vol. 19, nos 1-4 (1988-1989). Publication / Pou40
  • Cited by: Asien-Orient-Institut Universität Zürich (AOI, Organisation)
  • Person: Pound, Ezra
6 1994 Eoyang, Eugene Chen. The many 'worlds' in world literature : Pound and Waley as translators of Chinese. In : Reading world literature : theory, history, practice. Ed. and with an introd. by Sarah Lawall. (Austin : University of Texas Press, 1994). Publication / Pou74
  • Cited by: Asien-Orient-Institut Universität Zürich (AOI, Organisation)
  • Person: Eoyang, Eugene
  • Person: Pound, Ezra
7 2004 Sinor, Denis. Arthur Waley : http://www.umass.edu/wsp/sinology/persons/waley.html. Web / AWal3