The last time I saw Edward G. Seidensticker, the master translator and one of the most influential Japanologists of the 20th century, he and I dined in a three-story wooden shop in Tokyo, a rare ...
BEIJING, April 21 (Xinhua) -- Late every night, light shines from the window of an old apartment off the Peking University campus. Inside, centenarian translator Xu Yuanchong works diligently on his ...