Poetry-Painting Affinity as Intersemiotic Translation

Chengzhi Jiang received his doctorate from City University of Hong Kong and is now an Associate Professor at the Department of Translation and Interpreting, Wuhan University, China. His research interests lie in intersemiotic translation, poetry translation, and translation in the Chinese museum and heritage context. His publications include "Bilingual and Intersemiotic Representation of Distance(s) in Chinese Landscape Painting: From yi ('meaning') to yi ('freedom')" (Semiotica, 2018; first author), "Bilingual Representation of Distance in Visual-Verbal Sign Systems: A Case Study of Guo Xi's Early Spring" (Semiotica, 2018), "Conceptualizing Pushing-hands in Translation Studies: From a Heideggerian Perspective" (Pushing-Hands of Translation and Its Theory: In Memoriam Martha Cheung, 1953-2013, 2016), "Visual Pragmatic Effects of Distance Representation in Bilingual Museum Catalogue Entries of Chinese Landscape Paintings" (Journal of Pragmatics, 2012), and "Quality Assessment for the Translation of Museum Texts: Application of a Systemic Functional Model" (Perspectives, 2010).

Introduction.- 1  Poetry-Painting Interanimation as Intersemiotic Translation: A Heideggerian-Daoist Epistemological Framework.- 2  The Rhetoric of Intersemiotic Translation: From Theory to Application.- 3  Investigating the Mountain Image in Wang Wei’s Poetry: A Cognitive Stylistic Approach to Poetry-Painting Affinity.- 4  Image(s), Imagery Network and Landscape Representation: Towards an Operational Model for Poetry Interpretation and Translation.- 5  Revisiting Poetry-painting Affinity from a Translational Perspective: A Case Study.-  Conclusion.