“The sole purpose is to express my political views”

Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Dates, persons, terms 1
4. Introduction 5
5. Background
6. Degrees of familiarity with the west in late Qing society 25
7. A statistical survey of translated fiction 1840–1920 37
8. From petitions to fiction 43
9. Translated works
10. LIberal versions 57
11. Lord Byron’s “The isles of Greece” 79
12. “The sole purpose is to express my political views” 105
13. The discourse of occidentalism? Wei Yi and Lin Shu’s treatment of religious material in their translation of Uncle Tom’s Cabin 127
14. Giving texts a context 151
15. Jules Verne, Science fiction and related matters 177
16. Making waves
17. From popular science to science fiction 209
18. Ms Picha and Mrs Stowe 241
19. Wang Guowei as translator of values 253
20. The influence of translated fiction on chinese romantic fiction 283
21. Translating modernity 303
22. Name index 331