This book studies the reception history of Western literature in China from the 1840s to the present. Qi explores the socio-historical contexts and the contours of how Western literature was introduced, mostly through translation and assesses its transformative impact in the cultural, literary as well as sociopolitical life of modern China.

Looking at the works of the Bronte sisters through a translingual, transnational, and transcultural lens, this collection is the first book-length study of the Brontes as received and reimagined in languages and cultures outside of Europe and the United States.

Looking at the works of the Bronte sisters through a translingual, transnational, and transcultural lens, this collection is the first book-length study of the Brontes as received and reimagined in languages and cultures outside of Europe and the United States.

This book studies the reception history of Western literature in China from the 1840s to the present. Qi explores the socio-historical contexts and the contours of how Western literature was introduced, mostly through translation and assesses its transformative impact in the cultural, literary as well as sociopolitical life of modern China.