Primer librería especializada en China

Pondrá a disposición del público local los grandes clásicos de 

su literatura y su producción más reciente

Daniel Gigena 

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30 de enero de 2018  

A partir de hoy, la ciudad de Buenos Aires tiene su primera
 librería especializada en China. El espacio, destinado tanto
a investigadores como a aquellos que sientan curiosidad
 por la literatura que se escribe en el gigante asiático,
 contará con material chino traducido al español.
Funcionará al comienzo como un canal de información,
 con herramientas online de consulta y de comercio
 electrónico. Esto significa que no habrá un desembarco
de cientos o miles de libros, sino una muestra de ejemplares
y catálogos. Ayer a la tarde, con la presencia de autoridades
del Estado chino y de representantes de la Cámara Argentina
 del Libro, se inauguró That's China Bookself, en Callao 150.
Se la puede visitar de 10 a 15.

La apertura de este espacio es otra de las iniciativas
culturales del expansivo país asiático. La delegación
estuvo encabezada por Zhou Huilin, viceministro del
área de Medios; el director general del Departamento de Prensa,
Diarios y Revistas de ese ministerio,
Li Jun, y el director general del Departamento de la Administración
de Importaciones, Jiang Maoining, acompañados
por los responsables de China Intercontinental Press (CIP),
la gran editorial oficial de ese país. También participaron
la presidenta de la Cámara Argentina del Libro (CAL),
 Graciela Rosenberg, y el rector de la Universidad de Congreso
(UC),el ingeniero Rubén Bresso, que firma el acuerdo 
por la parte argentina. 
La UC coordina la Casa de la Cultura China, situada en Callao 150,
 y promueve la revista que dirigen el historiador Néstor Restivo y 
Gustavo Ng, denominada Dang Dai,
y que está dedicada a las relaciones entre la Argentina y China.

Desde la CAL anticiparon que aumentará la posibilidad de que
se traduzcan más libros chinos al español y, recíprocamente,
títulos argentinos al chino. En China existe un programa de
apoyo a las traducciones similar al Programa Sur, que aquí
depende del Ministerio de Relaciones Exteriores y Culto.

China Intercontinental Press es una de las editoriales
más importantes del país asiático e impulsa la difusión de
la producción editorial china reciente. Ahora, los lectores argentinos
podrán acceder directamente a bibliografía de diversas
temáticas en ediciones en español. Los libros del país de Lin Yutang
y Mai Jia están en pleno centro porteño.

La UC, con sede en la provincia de Mendoza, y la CIP
desarrollaron el sitio web y la appen español, inglés y árabe.
Se llama That's y allí estarán a disposición textos, estudios y
literatura china antigua y contemporánea.
Entre otros autores, se podrán conseguir títulos de Chi Zijian,
Jia Pingwa, la escritora Wang Anyi y de Mo Yan,
premio Nobel de Literatura 2012.

Hubo varios asistentes a la inauguración de la librería en
Buenos Aires: directivos de editoriales locales, académicos,
 referentes culturales y dirigentes de diversos ámbitos.
CIP tiene vínculos con editoriales de una treintena de países y
ha comercializado libros en más de doscientos. Su fondo editorial
 comprende más de 3000 títulos en veinte idiomas.

Por: Daniel Gigena
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1. PUBLICATION > Pò Mó biàn Critical Edition with Annotated Translations into Modern Chinese and English

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PUBLICATION > Pò Mó biàn Critical Edition with Annotated Translations into Modern Chinese and English

by Christoph Anderl

【破魔變】中英對照校注 - Pò Mó biàn Critical Edition with Annotated Translations into Modern Chinese and English. By 林靜慧, Christoph Anderl, and 洪振洲.
ISBN 13: 9789575987688
ISBN 10: 9575987683

This publication is one of the results of a collaborative project researching vernacular Dunhuang manuscripts, conducted by Ghent University, Belgium, (in the framework of the "Ghent Database of Medieval Chinese Manuscripts") and the Dharma Drum Institute of Liberal Arts (DILA, Taiwan). In the project, which has been ongoing for the last three years, digital high-quality marked-up editions of important vernacular Dunhuang manuscripts are produced (mostly Bianwen 變文 and Jiangjingwen 講經文). Until now, ca. 20 texts have been digitized and critically edited. A selected number of texts will be newly edited in book form and bilingually translated.

This publication includes editions of two Dunhuang manuscripts of the Pomobian 破魔變 ("Transformation Text of the Destruction of Māra"), as well as a critical edition with annotated translations into modern Chinese and English. In addition, textual features such as Dunhuang character variants and phonetic loan characters are analyzed (including more than 100 pages of tables listing all the variants appearing in the text). The book also includes introductions in Chinese and English.

Location: Taibei

Publisher: 東初文化事業股份有限公司

Page Numbers: 416

Publication Date: Nov 2017

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To be a better person, stop trying to be a good person Recently I’ve been realizing just how unhelpful it is to want to see yourself as a good person. That might seem odd, since you might think that of course we’d want to see ourselves as good people, so let me explain the problem I see. If you think of yourself as a good person, what happens when someone points out that you’ve done something that’s kinda crappy — such as being dishonest about something or having been inconsiderate? It’s important for you to see yourself as a good person, and so you defend yourself. Maybe you even attack or undermine the other person. You want to preserve your view of yourself, because thinking of yourself as “good” is important to you. This is something I’ve observed in myself. My partner would point out that I’d said something that was, in some minor way, untrue, and I’d deny it. I’d twist what I’d said to try to make it seem true, or say I’d meant something else. In not wanting to let go of my belief in myself as a good person, I slipped further away from being a good person. A friend was having problems with her boss overruling her expertise on important matters and refusing to give the reasoning behind her decision, other than saying “It’s what I’ve decided.” This was, as you might imagine, undermining. And when she challenged her boss on this all she got was evasion or blame. The boss wanted to convince her that she hadn’t done anything wrong. In fact I think she wanted to convince herself that she hadn’t done anything wrong. Again, in trying to maintain her status as a good person, she behaved like a person who wasn’t good. Lots of people think of themselves as good, even as they do awful things. They minimize the harm they cause: It wasn’t such a big deal. They deny they’ve even caused harm, even when they’ve committed extreme acts, such as theft, or even sexual abuse or violence against loved ones. The other person deserved it, wanted it. I can’t help thinking that the belief that they are a good person actual enables them to do these things: “I’m a good person, so the things I do can’t be that bad.” The alternative is not to think you’re a bad person. That’s just as unhelpful. The alternative is not to think of yourself as any kind of person at all! This is in fact something that the Buddha taught. He said that there was no view of ourselves we can have that isn’t a source of suffering. And by “view” he meant a fixed belief. When a fixed belief about ourselves is challenged, we feel defensive. The reason we were clinging in the first place was to provide a sense of stability and security: I know what I am. I’m a good person. Not thinking of yourself as good or bad doesn’t leave us in a moral vacuum, unable to decide how to act. In fact it liberates us. We can see ourselves in two ways: First, we’re a mixture of good and bad tendencies and qualities (although Buddhism tends to talk in terms of “skillful” and “unskillful” tendencies and qualities). There is no one quality, good or bad, that defines who we are. We’re a mixture, and the composition of that mixture changes, moment by moment. We’re indefinable. Second, we can, if we so choose, have sense of moral direction. If we have a clear idea of the kind of person we want to be, and the kinds of personal qualities we want to embody, and if we commit to that, then that becomes our focus. We see ourselves as works in progress, working to let go of tendencies that harm ourselves and others, and to strengthen and develop qualities that bring benefits instead. Arriving at the goal isn’t the important thing; it’s that we have a goal and are working toward it. Instead of trying to be a good person, aim to do good. This may not seem like much of a shift, but it is. We’re not thinking of ourselves in fixed terms. Rather than seeing ourselves as being static we’re seeing ourselves as dynamic, ever-changing, and responsible for our own ethical destinies. I’ve found it liberating to be challenged to look at myself more closely and to realize that I’d been slipping into wanting to see myself as good. That’s not helpful. In truth I’m not good. I’m not bad. I’m evolving. And that’s a liberating thing to remember. With love, Bodhipaksa

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