Transcultural Lyricism - Translation, Intertextuality, and the Rise of Emotion in Modern Chinese Love Fiction, 1899-1925

In Transcultural Lyricism, Jane Qian Liu discusses the extent to which modern Chinese writer-translators borrowed from foreign literary works to create new ways to express emotion and by extension radically transformed the lyrical modes of modern Chinese literature.

About the author

Jane Qian Liu, DPhil (2014), University of Oxford, is lecturer in comparative literature at Beijing Normal University. She has published articles, book chapters and translations on Chinese and European literature, including "The Making of Transcultural Lyricism in Su Manshu's Fiction Writing," in Modern Chinese Literature and Culture (Fall 2016).

Product details

• Authors: Jane Qian Liu
• Publisher: Brill
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 12.01.2017
• EAN: 9789004301313
• ISBN: 978-90-04-30131-3
• No. of pages: 252
• Dimensions: 160 mm x 239 mm x 20 mm
• Weight: 236 g
• Series: China Studies
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies