ABSTRACT
Translating Chinese Art and Modern Literature examines issues in cross-cultural dialogue in connection with translation and modern Chinese art and literature from interdisciplinary perspectives. This comprises the text-image dialogue in the context of Chinese modernity, and cross-cultural interaction between modern literature in Chinese and other literatures.
This edited collection approaches these issues with discrete foci and approaches, and the ten chapters in this volume are to be divided into two distinct parts. The first part highlights the mutual effects between literary texts and visual images in the media of book, painting, and film, and the second part includes contributions by scholars of literary translation.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter 1|23 pages
Painted in oil, composed in ink
Late Qing ekphrastic poetry and the encounter with Western-style painting
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chapter 3|26 pages
The dramatization of characterization in the literary translations of the 1910s in China
A case study of Zhou Shoujuan’s translations of Western fiction
1
chapter 4|22 pages
Spilled ink
Woodblock print artists and Lu Xun’s literary and theoretical translations
1
chapter 5|13 pages
Between orality and visuality
Translating “radio stories” into popular Cantonese films
chapter 6|16 pages
Translation as weapon in the war of ideas
English, Russian, and Chinese translations of “Li Sao” in the 1950s
chapter 9|14 pages
Translationese as dissent
The use of translationese in Zhang Chengzhi’s History of the Soul and Yan Lianke’s The Four Books
