Traditional Chinese Fiction in the English-Speaking World

Explores the changing conceptualization of World literature

Contributes to translation studies, genre studies, and Chinese literary studies

Considers the reception and adaptation of traditional Chinese literature

Explores the changing conceptualization of World literature Contributes to translation studies, genre studies, and Chinese literary studies Considers the reception and adaptation of traditional Chinese literature

Autorentext

Junjie Luo is Associate Professor of Asian Studies at Gettysburg College, USA. His essays on translation and transnational studies of traditional Chinese literature have appeared in Comparative Literature Studies, Perspectives: Studies in Translation Theory and Practice, ISLE, and Translation Quarterly, as well as in the edited volumes Historic Engagements with Occidental Cultures, Religions, Power (2014) and Philosophy as World Literature (2020).

Inhalt

1. Introduction. 2. Chapter 1: Hau Kiou Choaan : Encyclopedic Novel, Print Culture, and the Knowledge about China.- 3. Chapter 2: Romantic Fiction, Historical Novels, and the Receptions of Traditional Chinese Fiction from 1800 to 1869.- 4. Chapter 3: Image of China in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries: Pseudotranslation, Chinese Stories , and Strange Stories from the Lodge of Leisures.-

   5. Chapter 4: How Traditional Chinese Fiction Entered World Literature Anthologies.- 6. Chapter 5: Researching Traditional Chinese Fiction in the English-speaking World: Translations and Critiques of Jin Ping Mei . 7. Conclusion.

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