Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. TRANSLATING CHINA AS CROSS-IDENTITY PERFORMANCE
5. Introduction: Translation as Cross-Identity Performance 1
6. Chapter One. Pseudotranslation as Blackface and Whiteface: Marana’s The Turkish Spy and Goldsmith’s Citizen of the World 21
7. Chapter Two. Translation as Passing: L’orphelin de la Chine and The Sorrows of Han 59
8. Chapter Three. Translation as Drag: Early Nineteenth-Century Translations of Nonfictional Material from Chinese and The Pacha of Many Tales 94
9. Chapter Four. Translation as Mimicry: Creating the Chinese Voice, 1630–1900 122
10. Chapter Five. Translation as Masquerade: Gu Hongming and Lin Yutang 161
11. Conclusion 218
12. Appendix A: Extract from Leland’s Pidgin-English Sing-Song 225
13. Appendix B: Chronological List of Translations of the Lunyu and/or the Zhongyong 229
14. Notes 233
15. Bibliography 251
16. Index 277
17. About the Author 289