Charles and Mary Lamb's Tales from Shakespeare played an essential role in Chinese
reception history of Shakespeare. The first two adaptations in China, Xiewai qitan 澥外奇譚 …

In a short article entitled “Discussing the Inadequacy of Eliminating the Classical Language”
論古文之不宜廢, the wellknown translator Lin Shu 林紓(1917) criticizes the shift from …

As a pioneer of Chinese translation, Lin Shu groped for a way out of the dichotomy to
achieve a balance between foreignization and domestication. His domesticating strategies …

The blended concept of translaboration has received considerable attention since 2015
when it was introduced by Alexa Alfer and colleagues. Yinbian yanyu [An English Poet …

Abstract The May Fourth Movement refers to the historical period between 1915 and
1921/1923 in China, which was characterised by the radical introduction of Western ideas …

This article focuses on the Chinese rendition of Lamb's prose adaptation of Hamlet,
examining the factors affecting the domesticating strategies employed by the anonymous …

Lin Shu quickly appeared but vanished in Chinese literary history at the turn of the twentieth
century. Following a sociohistorical path, this essay identifies three roles he played in a …

This paper introduces Western readers to Japanese scholarship on late Qing and early
Republican fiction and translation. It begins with a historical background on the development …

Lin Shu did not only advocate a literature free of the authority of a single school but, as we
have seen, he even recognized the high value of vernacular novels, such as Dream of the …

This article makes an argument for studying the neglected phenomenon of retranslation as
an essential medium of communication between literary cultures. In my book The Chinese …