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The Bloomsbury Handbook of Modern Chinese Literature in Translation

The Bloomsbury Handbook of Modern Chinese Literature in Translation

Bruno, Cosima
Klein, Lucas
Song, Chris

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Series: Bloomsbury Handbooks

Literary CriticismPlays

ISBN10: 135021535X
ISBN13: 9781350215351
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Published: Nov 27 2025
Pages: 472
Weight: 1.83
Height: 0.95 Width: 7.44 Depth: 9.69
Language: English

Offering the first systematic overview of modern and contemporary Chinese literature from a translation studies perspective, this handbook provides students, researchers and teachers with a context in which to read and appreciate the effects of linguistic and cultural transfer in Chinese literary works.

Translation matters. It always has, of course, but more so when we want to reap the benefits of intercultural communication. In many universities Chinese literature in English translation is taught as if it had been written in English. As a result, students submit what they read to their own cultural expectations; they do not read in translation and do not attend to the protocols of knowing, engagements and contestations that bind literature and society to each other. The Bloomsbury Handbook of Modern Chinese Literature in Translation squarely addresses this pedagogical lack.

Organised in a tripartite structure around considerations of textual, social, and large-scale spatial and historical circumstances, its thirty plus essays each deal with a theme of translation studies, as emerged from the translation of one or more Chinese literary works. In doing so, it offers new tools for reading and appreciating modern and contemporary Chinese literature in the global context of its translation, offering in-depth studies about eminent Chinese authors and their literary masterpieces in translation. The first of its kind, this book is essential reading for anyone studying or researching Chinese literature in translation.

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