History Retold

Leo Tak-hung Chan is Junwu Distinguished Professor, Guangxi University, China. Besides articles in Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies, The Translator, and other journals, he has authored seven books—Western Theory in East Asian Contexts (2020), Readers, Reading and Reception of Translated Fiction in Chinese (2010), Twentieth-Century Chinese Translation Theory (2004), The Discourse on Foxes and Ghosts (1998), Translation in the Post-Babelian Era (2020), and Translation, Adaptation, and Reader Reception (2020) [the last two in Chinese]—and edited One into Many: Translation and the Dissemination of Classical Chinese Literature (2003). He was 2017 CETRA Chair Professor of Translation, University of Leuven, Belgium, and 2018 Humanities and Social Sciences Prestigious Fellow (Hong Kong Research Grants Council).Zong-qi Cai teaches at Lingnan University of Hong Kong and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He has published thirteen scholarly books in English and five in Chinese, most recent of which are his monograph Grammar and Poetic Visions 語法與詩境 (2021), his edited volume How to Read Chinese Prose: A Guided Anthology (2022), and his co-authored volume (with Jie Cui and Liu Yucai), How to Read Chinese Prose in Chinese: A Course in Classical Chinese (2022) . He founded/cofounded and edits two Duke University Press journals, Prism: Theory and Modern Chinese Literature and The Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (co-founded with Professor Yuan Xingpei), as well as the Chinese-language Lingnan Journal of Chinese Studies 嶺南學報.” He is also the general co-editor of the Brill book series Chinese Texts in the World, and as well as the Columbia book series How to Read Chinese Literature.

• AcknowledgementsNotes on Contributors1 Introduction: Translation Histories, Micro and MacroLeo Tak-hung Chan and Zong-qi CaiPart 1 Texts in History2 The “Double Effect” of Translation in Jean-Pierre Abel-Rémusat’s Iu-Kiao-LiDaniel M. Youd3 Peritextual Performance: Théodore Pavie’s Histoire des Trois RoyaumesSarah Bramao-Ramos4 From Scripture to Literature: Translations of the Shijing by James Legge and Arthur WaleyFusheng WuPart 2 Untold Microhistories5 Sinological Positioning: The Giles-Waley Debate and the Inception of Arthur Waley’s Chinese Translations, 1917–1922Lynn Qingyang Lin6 Monkey’s Peregrinations in the West: An Archival Study of Publishers’ Reception of Arthur Waley’s Translation of the XiyoujiLintao Qi7 The Making of a Book of Wisdom: Hermann Keyserling and Richard Wilhelm’s I GingTze-ki HonPart 3 Toward the Macrohistorical8 The Genesis of Dao Knowledge at the Beginning of OrientalismSophie Ling-chia Wei9 Dreams and Plums of World Literature: The Honglou meng and Jin Ping Mei in English (1827–1939)Andrew SchonebaumCoda: Histoire Croisée and the Early European Translators: Missionaries, Scholars, AesthetesLeo Tak-hung ChanIndex