Second, this is the first time that the American Association of Literary Translators has ever awarded a prize for an English translation of a contemporary Chinese work. The Association once awarded a prize for a collection of classical Chinese works, but the collection included many poems that had already been translated before.
第二，這是美國文學翻譯學會首度頒給當代中文作品的英譯本，在此之前，只有一本中文譯作得獎，那是一部古典文學選集，其中收錄許多已經有人譯過的詩詞。