The Translatability of Revolution: Guo Moruo and Twentieth-Century Chinese Culture

by Pu Wang

The first comprehensive study of the lifework of Guo Moruo (1892-1978) in English, this book explores the dynamics of translation, revolution, and historical imagination in twentieth-century Chinese culture. Guo was a romantic writer who eventually became Mao Zedong's last poetic interlocutor; a Marxist historian who evolved into the inaugural president of China's Academy of Sciences; and a leftist politician who devoted almost three decades to translating...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674987187
• ISBN13: 9780674987180
• Release Date: August 2018
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 5.8" x 9.1"