Addresses three key areas of literary exploration translation, inter-text and trans-cultural dialogue
Provides a balanced cross-cultural perspective of both the Western canon and Far Eastern cultural heritages
Refines a wide range of critical concepts established in translation studies, inter-textuality, migrant and comparative literature

Autorentext
Shuangyi Li is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Comparative Literature at Lund University in Sweden. Besides Proust, he is interested in 20th-century European and global modernism(s), transcultural writings by writers of Far Eastern Asian diasporic communities, processes of international canonization, reception studies, translation studies, travel writings, and critical models of world and comparative literature. He is currently working on a project on literature and art of the Chinese diaspora in France within the broader framework of cultural translation and intermediality.

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Introduction.- Part I: The Reception of Proust in China.- Proust and the Chinese Translations.- Proust and Mainland Chinese Writers: La Recherche and Its Postmodern Hypertexts.- Part II: Proust in the Chinese Diaspora: François Cheng's Le Dit de Tianyi.- Intertextual and Paratextual Relations between La Recherche and Le Dit.- Traits chinois / démarche proustienne.- Conclusion.