I was recently approached with a kind offer to take part in a huge project: Translation into English of the Kyrgyz Epic of Manas that comprises over 200,000 lines of verse. The team, I was assured, would include native speakers of Kyrgyz and Chinese; my role would simply be to polish the English text. I have done … Continue reading Translate the Kyrgyz Epic of Manas – or rather its Chinese “version” – into English?  →