Discover the Beauty of the
Rhymes and Vibes in the Song Dynasty
About Julia Min
Julia Min – a lecturer of Shenzhen University (China), a founder and coordinator of China-Scotland Golf Education Program which was later funded by R&A St Andrews while working at Elmwood College in Scotland, and now she is semi-retired with golf at Riversdale Golf Club and sessional teaching on translation in Monash University (Australia).
Before turning 19 (1982), She got a B.A. in English Language and Literature from Huazhong Normal University（华中师范大学） and started teaching at a Teachers’ College （黄冈师范学院）in Huangzhou where Su Dongpo wrote most of his masterpieces which are still there carved into stones at Red Cliff. She had the pleasure of studying them during her three years of teaching. This led to her idea later of a collaborative translation project, a teamwork with her professor Prof. Osing, and her colleague Prof. Huang though she was only 23 and the only one bilingual in the team. Books published: Blooming Alone in Winter was published in 1990 and Forever Tonight at my Window in 1992.
“Translation is an art of transforming everything in form while changing nothing in meaning so that the message received by the target readership is almost the same as received by the source text readership" -- Julia Min
About Gordon T Osing
Gordon Osing – An emeritus professor, English Department, University of Memphis, U.S.
In 1986-87, he served as an exchange teacher at the Central China Normal University, and there he began working with Julia Min on the ci poems of Su Dongpo. Blooming Alone in Winter was their first publication.
In 1990-91, he was awarded a Full-bright Senior Lectureship at Hong Kong University (British). He found it convenient to cross over to Shenzhen to work with Julia Min on a second Song Dynasty volume, Ci poems by Li Qungzhao.
In the States, his poems have appeared in The Southern Review, The New Yorker, Southern Humanities Review, Arkansas Review, the Asia-Pacific Review, and other magazines and reviews.
About Huang Haipeng
Professor Huang Haipeng, Chinese Department, Huanggang Teacher's College. Passes away in 2018.