Bloomsbury Handbook of Modern Chinese Literature in Translation

Cosima Bruno is Reader in Chinese Literature at SOAS University of London, UK.Lucas Klein is Associate Professor in Chinese Literature at Arizona State University, USA.Chris Song is Assistant Professor in English and Chinese Translation at the University of Toronto, Canada.

• Introduction: Mapping Modern Chinese Literature in Translation, (Cosima Bruno, Associate Professor of Chinese Literature, SOAS University of London, UK; Lucas Klein, Associate Professor of Chinese, Arizona State University, USA; Chris Song, Assistant Professor of English and Chinese Translation, at the University of Toronto, Canada)Section One: The Plural Aesthetic of TranslationChapter one: Reading Chinese-English Translations as Versions, Nick Admussen (Associate Professor, Cornell University, USA) Chapter two: Translation – Legibility – Sixiang, Michael Gibbs Hill (Associate Professor in Chinese Studies, William & Mary University, VA, USA)Chapter three: A Song not for Dancing: Translation, Adaptation and Poetics in Soviet, Taiwanese and Mainland Chinese Rock Music of the 1980s, Sasha Hsiang-yin Chen (Associate Research Fellow, Academia Sinica, Taiwan)Chapter four: Translation and Chinese Avant-garde Fiction, Paola Iovene (Associate Professor in Chinese Literature, University of Chicago, USA)Chapter five: Queer Translation, Chi Ta-wei (Assistant Professor, National Chengchi University, Taiwan)Chapter six: Voices from the In-Between: Chinese Internet Avant-garde Classicist Poetry at the Crossroad, Zhiyi Yang (Professor of Sinology, Goethe University, Frankfurt, Germany)Chapter seven: Pseudotranslation in Zhou Shoujuan’s Love Stories, Jane Qian Liu (Assistant Professor of Translation and Chinese Studies, University of Warwick, UK)Chapter eight: The Success of Chinese Science Fiction, Cara Healey (Assistant Professor of Chinese and Asian Studies, Wabash College, IN, USA)Chapter nine: Translating “Bird Talk”: Cross-Cultural Translation, Bergsonian Intuition, and Transnational Modernism in Fiction of Xu Xu, Frederick Green (Associate Professor of Chinese, San Francisco State University, USA)Chapter ten: Ling Shuhua and the Bloomsbury Group: Modernism, Autobiography, and Translation, Jeesoon Hong (Professor of Chinese Media Culture, Sogang University, South Korea)Chapter eleven: Sappho’s Younger Brother: Shao Xunmei, Translation, and his Golden House Bookshop, Paul Bevan (Lecturer in Modern Chinese Literature and Culture, Wadham College, Oxford, UK)Section Two: Production and Reception Chapter twelve: Perceptions of Power in Literary Translation: translators and translatees (Bonnie McDougall (Visiting Professor in Chinese, University of Sidney, Australia)Chapter thirteen: State-Sponsored Institutional Translation of Chinese Literature, 1951-1983, Ma Huijuan (Professor of Translation Studies, Editor ofTranslation Horizons, Beijing Foreign Studies University, PRC) Chapter fourteen: Translating American Literature into Chinese during the Cold War Era: The Literary Translation and Cultural Politics of the World Today Press, Shan Te-hsing (Distinguished Research Fellow, Academia Sinica Taiwan) Chapter fifteen: Assessment Labour in Chinese Literature Translation, Jonathan Stalling (Professor of English, University of Oklahoma, USA) Chapter sixteen: Chinese crime fiction in translation. The international circulation of a peripheral macro-genre, Paolo Magagnin (Associate Professor, University of Ca’ Foscari, Italy) Chapter seventeen: The Penumbra and the Shadow – Editing Translations of Modern Chinese Literature, Ping Zhu (Professor of Modern Chinese Literature, University of Oklahoma, USA, Editor of Chinese Literature and Thought Today) Chapter eighteen: The Chinese Fiction Book Cover Archive, Marta Dos Santos (Independent Scholar) Chapter nineteen: Madmen, Marxists, and Modernists: A Century of Lu Xun in Translation, Daniel Dooghan (Associate Professor of English Writing University of Tampa, FL, USA) Chapter twenty: The Translation of Migrant Worker Literature: China’s Battler Poetry, Maghiel van Crevel (Professor of Chinese Language and Literature, Leiden University, Netherlands) Chapter twenty-one: Fairytales in Action: Chinese online fiction, English fan translation, and the fan as the author, Rachel Suet Kay Chan (Research Fellow, The National University of Malaysia, Malaysia)Chapter twenty-two: Online Translation of Webnovels, Zhang Yin (PhD Candidate in Translation and Interpretation, University of Geneva, Switzerland) Chapter twenty-three: The Reader in Jin Yong’s Condor Heroes, Shelly Bryant (Independent Scholar, Singapore) Section Three: Living in TranslationChapter twenty-four: Sinophone Routes: Translation, Self-translation and Deterritorialization, Nicoletta Pesaro (Professor, Università di Ca’ Foscari, Italy) Chapter twenty-five: Translation in a Multilingual Context: Six authors writing the city, Cosima Bruno (Reader in Chinese Literature, SOAS University of London, UK) Chapter twenty-six: Hong Kong and Macao Literatures in Translation: Reconceptualizing outward and inward translation, Chris Song (Assistant Professor in English and Chinese Translation, University of Toronto)Chapter twenty-seven: Tibetan Literature, Yangdon Dhondup (Independent Scholar)Chapter twenty-eight: Taiwanese Literature, Wen-chi Li (Post-Doctoral Fellow, University of Oxford, UK)Chapter twenty-nine: Translating Singapore Chinese literature, TK Lee (Associate Professor of Translation, Hong Kong University) & E.K. Tan (Associate Professor of Comparative Literature and Sinophone Studies, Stony Brook University, New York, USA)Chapter thirty: The Translator as Cultural Ambassador: The Case of Lin Yutang, James St André (Professor of Translation, Chinese University of Hong Kong) Chapter thirty-one: ‘An Exercise in Futility’: Zhang Ailing as a Self-Translator, Dylan Wang (PhD candidate, SOAS University of London, UK) Chapter thirty-two: Exophony, translation, and transnationalism in Gao Xingjian’s French/Chinese plays, Mary Mazzilli (Senior Lecturer in Drama and Literature, University of Essex, UK) Chapter thirty-three: Born Translated? On the Opposition Between “Chineseness” and Modern Chinese Literature Written for and from Translation, Lucas Klein (Associate Professor, University of Arizona, USA)Chapter thirty-four: Teaching MCL in/and Translation, Michel Hockx (Professor of Chinese Literature, University of Notre Dame, Indiana, USA)

In this volume, leading scholars spotlight translation’s centrality to modern Chinese literature and that literature’s significance to the study of translation. They demonstrate the sheer breadth and depth of translation’s role in Chinese literature and its reception around the world from Bloomsbury modernists to Google Translate, science fiction to Scandinavian pop lyrics, Cold War powerplay to the contemporary poetry of Chinese factory workers. Anyone wanting to understand why translation matters now more than ever to literature, China, and the world should read this book.