Essay on Relations between Chinese and Foreign Literature
by Wang Baihua
About This Novel
This book is the result of the author's years of accumulation in the field of Chinese and foreign literary relations. The topics span many fields: how the French philosopher Bergson was borrowed or even misappropriated in the debate on science and metaphysics, the modern Western elements in Wang Zengqi's novels, Wang Xiaobo's "inheritance" and external influences, Chen Ran's "female writing" and its paradoxes, how Borges made the protagonist Yucun kill the Sinologist (thus being able to write his own Chinese story), Dickinson (Emily Dickinson) over the past century Dickinson's reception and translation in China, misunderstandings in the foreign translation and dissemination of Chinese classical poetry, body metaphors in Chinese and Western literary theory, the "Sinology" debate, etc. These case studies may be able to add a little line to the big map of "The World Republic of Letters", even if it is just a trail, a small bridge, or a small signpost at a fork in the road.
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