Modern China and the West

Peng Hsiao-yen, Ph.D. (1989), Harvard University, is Researcher of Modern Chinese Literature at Academia Sinica. She has published extensively on China and the West, including Dandyism and Transcultural Modernity: The Dandy, the Flaneur, and the Translator in 1930s Shanghai, Tokyo, and Paris (Routledge, 2010).Isabelle Rabut, Ph.D. (1992), Institut national des langues et civilisations orientales (INALCO), is Professor of Modern Chinese literature at INALCO. She has published on modern and contemporary authors, especially Shen Congwen, the jingpai writers and Yu Hua. She also has translated into French numerous 20th century literary works.

“… this volume collects well-researched chapters that reflect the newest scholarship, and in this way it is a meaningful contribution to the field of translation studies and modern Chinese studies.”… “For researchers of twentieth-century China-West cultural exchanges and the history of translation in modern China, this book is a must-read, as its chapters are mostly firmly grounded in primary sources and are generally convincing and well-written.”Qian Liu Beijing Normal University Oxford Comparative Criticism & Translation (2014)

• Series Editors' ForewordContributor Biographical InformationAcknowledgementsIntroductionPeng Hsiao-yen and Isabelle RabutSection I Translators and Cultural Actors as Mediators 1 China-Europe: Transcontinental “Intellectual Cooperation” during the Interwar Period Françoise Kreissler2 Ba Jin as TranslatorAngel Pino3 Eileen Chang as a Chinese Translator of American Literature Shan Te-hsing4 The Birth of a Profession: Translators and Translation in Modern China Nicolai VollandSection II Translation as a Shaping Force5 Psychic Force and its Betrayals: Re-treating Tan Sitong’s Translation of Psyche Joyce C. H. Liu6 Translating Liberalism into China in the Early Twentieth Century Max K.W. Huang7 Chinese Romanticism: The Acculturation of a Western NotionIsabelle Rabut8 Mapping a “New” Dramatic Canon: Rewriting the Legacy of Hong ShenXiaomei ChenSection III Transcultural Mediations9 The Shanghai School: Westernised Urbanity and Scriptural MimesisZhang Yinde10 A Traveling Text: Souvenirs entomologiques, Japanese Anarchism, and Shanghai Neo-SensationismPeng Hsiao-yen11 From Poetic Revolution to Nation-(Re)building: Vicissitudes of Modernity in Modern Chinese PoetrySebastian Hsien-hao Liao12 Ghostly China: Amy Tan’s Narrative of Transnational Haunting in The Hundred Secret Senses, The Bonesetter’s Daughter, and Saving Fish from Drowning Pin-chia Feng