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lin shu, inC.: translation and the M aKing of Modern Chinese Culture. By Michael Gibbs Hill. New York: Oxford University Press, 2013. 294 p. Drawing from the fields of literary studies, intellectual history, and print culture, Michael Gibbs Hill's striking new book Lin Shu, Inc.: Translation and the Making of Modern Chinese Culture traces the life of Lin Shu (18521924), early twentieth-century China's most prominent translator of Western fiction -- with over 180 collaborative translations to his name -- and a central force in the literary culture of the late Qing dynasty (18951911) and the early Republican period (19121927). Hill demonstrates how Lin Shu's career, and in particular his rapid rise to fame and then equally dramatic fall into ignominy, epitomized the ephemerality of the positions available to educated Chinese in urban cultural and educational institutions. The works of Lin Shu and his collaborators offer important perspectives on transformations in mental labor in China at the turn of the twentieth century. Lin Shu, Inc. reveals the many sides of this pioneering intellectual: the patriotic translator who adopted the model for "new fiction" envisioned by Liang Qichao; the arbiter between classical Chinese and the "national language" (guowen); the media
Comparative Literature – Duke University Press
Published: Jul 1, 2014
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