ginamcgill Posted March 11, 2013 at 12:52 PM Report Share Posted March 11, 2013 at 12:52 PM Hi All, I just have a quick question on translating 御製濬川銘幷小序 into English. 御製濬川銘幷小序 is an old book written in Chinese. I can only sense this book is regarding rivers.. but that's about it. (I might be even wrong!!) Could someone please help me to translate this book title into English? Thank you so much for your help! Gina Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ABCsOfChinese Posted March 12, 2013 at 04:11 PM Report Share Posted March 12, 2013 at 04:11 PM This one is a bit over my head, but I'd guess something along the lines of: "Imperial Preface to Deepening and Merging River Ditches? http://www.mdbg.net/chindict/chindict.php?page=worddict&wdrst=1&wdqb=%E5%BE%A1%E8%A3%BD%E6%BF%AC%E5%B7%9D%E9%8A%98%E5%B9%B7%E5%B0%8F%E5%BA%8F http://translate.google.com/#zh-CN/en/%E5%BE%A1%E8%A3%BD%E6%BF%AC%E5%B7%9D%E9%8A%98%E5%B9%B7%E5%B0%8F%E5%BA%8F Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skylee Posted March 12, 2013 at 07:06 PM Report Share Posted March 12, 2013 at 07:06 PM Consider - Made/Commissioned by (the order of) his majesty - An Eulogy on River Dredging (with Preface) According to information on the internet, It is about a Korean king's accomplishment of restoring a river called 開川. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ginamcgill Posted March 13, 2013 at 12:55 PM Author Report Share Posted March 13, 2013 at 12:55 PM Thanks so much, ABCsOfChinese and skylee. Your information helped me a lot indeed. Thanks again! Gina Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
atjc2002 Posted March 18, 2013 at 11:42 AM Report Share Posted March 18, 2013 at 11:42 AM I think it is correct that the article title is about a river. Although being not sure which article it is, this title still could be understand. I try to explain it by morden Mandarin: 御製: 皇帝題寫. Words or articles writen by the emperor. 濬川: 河道疏浚. To dredge a river. 銘: 銘文. An article carved on a metal-stuff for telling an important event or person-story. 并小序: 序言 A preface of an article. It is the translation in English: The Preamble of the Inscription about the River Dredging Project by the Emperor. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ginamcgill Posted March 18, 2013 at 12:24 PM Author Report Share Posted March 18, 2013 at 12:24 PM Thank you for your kind reply, atjc2002! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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