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Lin Shu, Inc. - Translation and the Making of Modern Chinese Culture (Hardcover)
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Lin Shu, Inc. - Translation and the Making of Modern Chinese Culture (Hardcover)
Series: Global Asias
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Lin Shu, Inc. explores the dynamic interactions between literary
translation, commercial publishing, and the politics of
"traditional" Chinese culture in the late nineteenth and early
twentieth centuries. It breaks new ground as the first full-length
study in any Western language on the career and works of Lin Shu
and his many collaborators in the publishing, academic, and
business worlds. Integrating literary scholarship, translation
studies, and print history, this book provides new insights into a
controversial figure in world literature and his place in the
profound transformations in authorship and cultural production in
modern China. Well before Ezra Pound and Bertolt Brecht transformed
Western-language poetry and theater with their inventions of
Chinese culture, Lin Shu and his collaborators had already embarked
on a translation project unique in modern literature. Although he
knew no foreign languages, in a 20-year period Lin Shu worked with
19 different assistants schooled in English, French, and other
tongues to complete more than 180 book-length translations into
classical Chinese. Through burgeoning print outlets such as the
Commercial Press (Shangwu yinshuguan), Lin and his collaborators
offered many readers in China their first taste of "Western
literature" - usually 19th-century novels and short stories from
the United States, England, and France. At the same time, Lin Shu
leveraged his labors as a translator to make himself into a leading
authority on "traditional" Chinese literature and cultural values.
From what one publisher called his "factory of words," Lin issued
scores of textbooks and anthologies of classical-language
literature, along with short stories, poems, essays, and a handful
of full-length novels.
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