Lin Shu, Inc.: Translation and the Making of Modern Chinese Culture

by Michael Gibbs Hill

Book Overview

How could a writer who knew no foreign languages call himself a translator? How, too, did he become a major commercial success, churning out nearly two hundred translations over twenty years?

Lin Shu, Inc. crosses the fields of literary studies, intellectual history, and print culture, offering new ways to understand the stakes of translation in China and beyond. With rich detail and lively prose, Michael Gibbs Hill shows how Lin Shu (1852-1924)...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0190278285
• ISBN13: 9780190278281
• Release Date: January 2016
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 310 Pages
• Weight: 1.02 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.1"