做学生时,读林语堂先生的作品,我发现《吾国与吾民》《孔子的智慧》《京华烟云》等一些很重要的作品,都是用英文创作的,而且这些作品在当时的《纽约时报》畅销书排行榜上曾长期位于前列,但我们读到的中文版却是由别人翻译的。后来,读哈金的《南京安魂曲》,发现这部小说的中文版也是别人翻译的。对此,我颇有些纳闷:这两位作家都是双语写作的高手,特别是林语堂先生,其中文写作可谓炉 When I was a student, I read some works of Sir Lin Yutang. I found some very important works such as “My Country and My People”, “Confucius Wisdom” and “Jinghua Clouds”. All of these works were created in English. Times has long been at the forefront of bestseller rankings, but the Chinese version we read was translated by others. Later, reading Hakin’s “Nanjing Requiem,” found that the Chinese version of the novel was also translated by others. In this regard, I am quite a bit puzzled: Both writers are bilingual master, especially Mr. Lin Yutang, the Chinese writing can be described as furnace