The book delves into the anxiety surrounding foreign otherness in modern China, particularly as it relates to translation and cross-cultural exchanges. It theorizes and contextualizes various issues tied to translation practices, highlighting how these practices respond to the complexities of engaging with foreign cultures. Through this exploration, the author sheds light on the broader implications of translation in fostering understanding and navigating cultural differences.
Focusing on the interplay between translation and spatial concepts, this book constructs a framework for addressing translation challenges. It delves into various spatial perspectives to illuminate the complexities of cultural exchanges between China and the West, providing insights into how these dynamics shape translation practices and understanding.
This book is the first comprehensive study in English of the art of an extraordinarily gifted Chinese writer, Zhang Tianyi, and affords an illuminating account of the most important stage in the development of modern Chinese fiction in the 1930s. It probes into Zhang’s art of narrative, and elucidates the complex way in which he responded to some of the Western literary theories imported to China by firmly placing his fiction in the context of the political and social upheaval in modern Chinese history. By examining Zhang’s art of narrative and that of some other writers, Fragmentation and Dramatic Moments has opened a unique vista of related literary and aesthetic issues in modern Chinese literary history.