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In:Translation and Creation: Readings of Western Literature in Early Modern China, 1840–1918
Edited by David E. Pollard
[Benjamins Translation Library 25] 1998
► pp. v–vi

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Published online: 15 March 1998
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Table of contents

Dates, persons, terms1
Introduction5
Background
Degrees of familiarity with the west in late Qing society25
A statistical survey of translated fiction 1840–192037
From petitions to fiction: Visions of the future propagated in early modern China43
Translated works
LIberal versions: late Qing approaches to translating aesop’s fables57
Lord Byron’s “The isles of Greece”: first translations79
“The sole purpose is to express my political views”: Liang Qichao and the translation and writing of political novels in the late Qing105
The discourse of occidentalism? Wei Yi and Lin Shu’s treatment of religious material in their translation of Uncle Tom’s Cabin127
Giving texts a context: Chinese translations of classical English detective stories 1896–1916151
Jules Verne, Science fiction and related matters177
Making waves
From popular science to science fiction: An investigation of ‘flying machines’209
Ms Picha and Mrs Stowe241
Wang Guowei as translator of values253
The influence of translated fiction on chinese romantic fiction283
Translating modernity303
Name index331
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