The Chinese translation of Russian literature : three studies / / by Mark Gamsa.

• Superior document: Sinica Leidensia, v. 90
• Author: Gamsa, Mark, 1970-
• Year of Publication: 2008
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Sinica Leidensia ; v. 90.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (444 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.

The important place of Russian literature in China is widely acknowledged. To better understand the processes of its translation, transmission and interpretation during the first half of the 20th century, this book draws on an array of Chinese and Russian sources, providing insight into the interplay of political ideologies, cultural trends, commercial forces, and the self-definition of Chinese culture in the period under consideration. By focusing on the translation and translators of three writers, Boris Savinkov, Mikhail Artsybashev and Leonid Andreev, it analyzes the critical fortune in China of the modernist literature written in Russia during the two decades preceding the Great War and Revolution. Offering a thorough study of Lu Xun, the most important Chinese author of the 20th century, as a reader, translator and interpreter of Russian literature, this book also displays the variety of the groups and persons involved in the introduction of foreign literature, going beyond shopworn generalizations about “East” and “West” to make meaningful statements about a complex period in Chinese history.

Table of Contents

Savinkov and the technique of translation -- Artsybashev and the ideology of translation -- Appropriation and decline : the channels of translation -- Andreev and the practice of translation -- The translator's profession.