List of contributors                                              vii

Introduction                                                        1
Yifeng Sun and Chris Song

 1 Painted in oil, composed in ink: Late Qing ekphrastic
   poetry and the encounter with Western-style painting             7
   Frederik H. Green

 2 Incivility incarnate: The Westerners of Wenming xiaoshi         30
   Stephen J. Roddy

 3 The dramatization of characterization in the literary
   translations of the 1910s in China: A case study of Zhou
   Shoujuan’s translations of Western fiction                      54
   Dechao Li

 4 Spilled ink: Woodblock print artists and Lu Xun’s literary
   and theoretical translations                                    80
   Elizabeth Emrich

 5 Between orality and visuality: Translating “radio stories”
   into popular Cantonese films                                   102
   Lunpeng Ma

 6 Translation as weapon in the war of ideas: English, Russian,
   and Chinese translations of “Li Sao” in the 1950s              115
   Xiaolu Ma

 7 Local intersections: Cultural translation in Liu Yichang       133
   Heidi Yu Huang

 8 Dog barking at the moon: Transcreation of a meme
   in art and poetry                                              151
   Cosima Bruno

 9 Translationese as dissent: The use of translationese in
   Zhang Chengzhi’s History of the Soul and Yan Lianke’s
   The Four Books                                                 172
   Jessica Yeung

10 Translating Chinese modernity                                  186
   Yifeng Sun

   Index                                                          207