Ovid in China

Thomas J. Sienkewicz, Ph.D (1975), Johns Hopkins University, is Capron Professor Emeritus of Classics at Monmouth College. His interests include Latin language and pedagogy, Classical Mythology and reception. He is the co-author of Disce! An Introductory Latin Course (Pearson, 2011).Jinyu Liu, Ph.D (2004), Columbia University, is Professor of Classical Studies at DePauw University, guest professor at Shanghai Normal University, and chief editor of New Frontiers of Research on Ovid in a Global Context (in Chinese, Peking University Press, 2021).Contributors are: Yumiao Bao, Pei Yun Chia, Caleb M. X. Dance, Heng Du, Steven Green, Sher-shiueh Li, Chun Liu, Jinyu Liu, William Motley, Fritz-Heiner Mutschler, Chenye Shi, Thomas J. Sienkewicz, Chen Wang, Xinyao Xiao, Ying Xiong, Kang Zhai.

"a remarkable international effort to understand Ovid’s reception in China. (...) Ovid in China stands as a testament to the inestimable value of philological work across cultures in both original language and in translation."Michele Valerie Ronnick in CJ Online, 2024.04.03

• ContentsOvid in China TimelineList of IllustrationsNotes on ContributorsIntroductionThomas J. Sienkewicz and Jinyu Liu1 Western Classics / Ovid in China: An OverviewFritz-Heiner Mutschler 穆啟樂2 Late Ming Jesuits and Western ClassicismSher-shiueh Li 李奭學3 Ovid on China: Images from Illustrated Suites of Scenes from Ovid on Eighteenth-Century Chinese Export PorcelainWilliam Motley4 Scenes from Ovid’s Metamorphoses on Four 18th-Century Chinese Export Porcelain PunchbowlsThomas J. Sienkewicz5 An Early Chinese Translation of an Ovidian QuotationChen Wang 王晨6 Ovid’s Debut in Chinese: Translating the Ars Amatoria into the Republican Discourse of LoveXinyao Xiao 肖馨瑤 and Yumiao Bao 包雨苗7 Translating Ovid into Chinese: Challenges and StrategiesJinyu Liu8 Writing in Misfortune: Ovid’s Heroides in Light of Chinese Poetic PerspectivesChun Liu 劉淳9 Translating Laughter: Literature, Language, Genre, and CultureCaleb M. X. Dance and Kang Zhai 翟康10 Ego sum praeceptor amoris: Ovid’s Art of Seduction for the Chinese AudienceXinyao Xiao11 Liberal Arts and Face Cosmetics: Ovid’s Medicamina into MandarinPei Yun Chia 謝佩芸 and Steven Green12 Experimenting with a Poetic Form in the Chinese Translation of the MetamorphosesKang Zhai13 Themes of Women’s Vengeance and Filicide in Ovid’s Metamorphoses: Reception and Comparison in Modern Chinese LiteratureYing Xiong 熊瑩14 Translating Fasti: Bringing Ovid’s Roman Year to ChinaChen Wang 王晨15 Translating Time: Writing the Calendar in Early China and Ancient RomeHeng Du 杜恆16 The Voice of the Exiled Poet: A Translator’s PerspectiveJinyu Liu17 Retelling Two Exiles in Rome and China: Philosophical Comfort, Literary Consolation, and the Impossible MourningChenye Shi 石晨葉Index