Travel, Translation and Transmedia Aesthetics

Shuangyi Li is a Lecturer in Comparative Literatures and Cultures at the University of Bristol, UK. He is the author of Proust, China and Intertextual Engagement: Translation and Transcultural Dialogue (2017) (International Comparative Literature Association Anna Balakian Prize 2019). He received his PhD in French at the University of Edinburgh and was selected as pensionnaire étranger at L'École Normale Supérieure, Paris (2012-13). He worked as a Swedish Research Council/Vetenskapsrådet Research Fellow at Lund University, Sweden (2019–2021).

• Chapter 1: Introduction.- Chapter 2: Diverse Forms of Travel and Translation in Franco-Chinese Fiction.- Chapter 3: Translingual Rewriting and Transhistorical Fabulation.- Chapter 4: Sinograph, Calligraphy, and Novelistic Aesthetics.- Chapter 5: Translational (Anti-)Storytelling and Transmedia Aesthetics.- Chapter 6: Conclusion.

“The book is overflowing with trendy concepts. … Li’s scintillating monograph is a must read for all those interested in a singular body of non-postcolonial, diasporic literature/ visual arts by a group of authors who straddle the Francophone and the Sinophone, yet stubbornly resist labels of any sort.” (Yunfei Bai, Recherche littéraire - Literary Research, Vol. 38, 2022)