Transcultural Lyricism: Translation, Intertextuality, and the Rise of Emotion in Modern Chinese Love Fiction, 1899-1925 (China Studies; Volume 36) by Jane Qian Liu - 2017

BRILL, 2017. Hardbound. New Book. Hardbound. Early 20th-century Chinese writers transformed emotional expression in love fiction by translating and inter-textualizing foreign literary texts, says Liu. She shows that the foreign literary texts were written in alien languages at different times and places, but were eagerly sought after and appropriated by modern Chinese writers. She discusses pseudo-writing and creating channels for the expression of emotion, creating melodramatic emotional effects: Zhou Shoujuan's creative translations of short stories on love, transcultural lyricism in Su Manshu's fictional writing, and finding the right medium for emotion expression: inter-textualizing Western literary texts in Yu Dafu's early short stories. (2017 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR)