Franz Kafka and Chinese Culture

Yanbing Zeng is Doctor of Literature, professor and doctoral supervisor of School of Liberal Art in Renmin University of China. He specializes in Western literature studies, comparative study of Chinese and Western Literature, study on postmodern literature and culture, and study on Kafka, and has published several monographs in these fields.Yuan Li, the translator, is Professor of English at the Faculty of English Language & Culture, Guangdong University of Foreign Studies. She has published extensively on contemporary Chinese and Anglo-Irish literature, culture and world literature.

• Introduction.- Sinking to the Seabed of Chinese Culture: Franz Kafka and Traditional Chinese Culture.- The First Dance Steps in Winter: An Analysis of Description of a Struggle.- The Great Wall in Transcultural Context: The Great Wall of China.- Old Manuscript from China: An Old Manuscript.- Babel on Chinese Great Wall: Kafka and the Philosophy of Laozi and Zhuangzi.- Kafka and Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio.- Into “Fortress Besieged” and Out of “The Castle”: A Comparative Analysis of Qian Zhongshu’s Fortress Besieged and Kafka’s The Castle.- Inscriptions on the Tomb Stone: A Comparative Analysis of Lu Xun’s “Tombstone Inscriptions” and Kafka’s “A Dream”.- “Bosom Friends” in Contemporary China: The Reception of Kafka’s Works by Contemporary Chinese Writers.- Franz Kafka and Contemporary Chinese Culture.- The Discussion of Kafka Never Ends: Kafka Studies in China.- The Translationand Introduction of Kafka’s The Metamorphosis in China.