Overview
- 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
Part of the book series: Chinese Literature and Culture in the World (CLCW)
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Table of contents (7 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
This book develops interdisciplinary and comparative approaches to analyzing the cross-cultural travels of traditional Chinese fiction. It ties this genre to issues such as translation, world literature, digital humanities, book culture, and images of China. Each chapter offers a case study of the historical and cultural conditions under which traditional Chinese fiction has traveled to the English-speaking world, proposing a critical lens that can be used to explain these cross-cultural encounters. The book seeks to identify connections between traditional Chinese fiction and other cultures that create new meanings and add to the significance of reading, teaching, and studying these classical novels and stories in the English-speaking world. Scholars, students, and general readers who are interested in traditional Chinese fiction, translation studies, and comparative and world literature will find this book useful.
Reviews
“This is the first scholarly monograph in English that is devoted to the study of the reception of pre-modern Chinese fiction in the English-speaking world. Filling a conspicuous gap in the field, it is an important contribution and should be a welcome read for students of literature, comparative culture, and translation studies.” (Martin Huang, Professor of Chinese, University of California, Irvine, USA)
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
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).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Traditional Chinese Fiction in the English-Speaking World
Book Subtitle: Transcultural and Translingual Encounters
Authors: Junjie Luo
Series Title: Chinese Literature and Culture in the World
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-05686-4
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2022
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-05685-7Published: 18 August 2022
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-05688-8Published: 19 August 2023
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-05686-4Published: 16 August 2022
Series ISSN: 2945-7254
Series E-ISSN: 2945-7262
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 205
Number of Illustrations: 20 b/w illustrations, 4 illustrations in colour
Topics: Asian Literature, Literature, general, Applied Linguistics, History of China