Scotland and China

Li Li is a Professor of Translation Studies at Macao Polytechnic University. She specialises in literary translation and has published articles and books on Scottish literature and children’s literature in Chinese.John Corbett is a Professor of English at BNU-HKBU United International College in Zhuhai, China. He has published widely on the use of Scots in literature and translation.

• AcknowledgementsNotes on ContributorsPart 1: Scottish Writers’ Engagement with China and Its Literature1 The Thistle and the Dragon: Scottish-Chinese Literary EncountersLi Li and John Corbett2 Approaching Otherness: the evolution of James Legge’s Translations of the Chinese ClassicsJiao Lin and Ren Dongsheng3 Sir Reginald Johnston: a Romantic Scottish Traveller in Modern ChinaXu Xi4 Scottish – Chinese Cross – Cultural Confrontations in Neo – Victorian NovelsMarie-Luise Kohlke5 The Dragon Lady: a Chinese Pirate Woman in Eric Linklater’s Byronic ParodiesCharles Lowe6 Chinese Poetry in Scots: From Pre-Modernist to Ethical TranslationJohn Corbett7 ‘Chinese Makars’: a Chinese-Scots Poetry Translation WorkshopGarry MacKenziePart 2: The Translation and Reception of Scottish Literature in China8 The Translation and Reception of Robert Burns in ChinaLi Suping9 ‘Drifting Down the Stream of a Deep and Smooth River’: the Translation and Film Adaptation of Ivanhoe in the Modern History of TaiwanChiu Kang-yen10 Robert Louis Stevenson in Mainland China: the Translation and Reception of Treasure IslandJiang Shuqin11 From Sherlock Holmes to Zhentan and Beyond: Arthur Conan Doyle in ChinaKaren Seago and Victoria Lei12 Contemporary Scottish Drama in China, 1982–2022Liu Qiang and Wang Lan13 Translating Musicality in Poetry: Hugh MacDiarmid’s ‘the Eemis Stane’ in ChineseLi Li and Kong Hao14 Mediating Language, Trauma and Nature: the Translation of Lewis Grassic Gibbon’s Sunset Song into ChineseZhu Ying and Liu Aihua15 Mediating John Galt: Translating the Entail into ChineseCai Nana16 Nan Shepherd’s the Living Mountain, the Chinese Classics and Contemporary EnvironmentalismLau Ngar Wai and Zhang Xi17 Translation and Cultural Mediation: Repositioning Claire McFall’s Ferryman for the Chinese MarketLi LiIndex