
Making of Barbarians
A groundbreaking account of translation and identity in the Chinese literary tradition before 1850—with important ramifications for today
Debates on the canon, multiculturalism, and world literature often take Eurocentrism as the target of their critique. But literature is a universe with many centers, and one of them is China. The Making of Barbarians offers an account of world literature in which...
A groundbreaking account of translation and identity in the Chinese literary tradition before 1850—with important ramifications for today
Debates on the canon, multiculturalism, and world literature often take Eurocentrism as the target of their critique. But literature is a universe with many centers, and one of them is China. The Making of Barbarians offers an account of world literature in which...