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Proust and the Chinese Translations

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The first chapter begins with an interpretive account of the ideological trajectory of the reception of Proust’s work in China. It demonstrates how the (re)translation and reception of Proust’s work have been uniquely determined and overdetermined by the drastically changing political ideologies and sociological factors behind the several key historical stages of twentieth-century and twenty-first-century China. It then compares and contrasts all the available Chinese translations—integral and selective—of La Recherche since the late 1980s, and explores their different emphases as well as their negligence of Proustian themes. The chapter ends with a close study of the evolving strategies employed to translate passages on homosexuality and sadomasochism in Proust’s work. It aims to demonstrate the extent to which such an evolution refracts changing and largely de-pathologizing discourses on, and attitudes to, these subjects in China from the late 1980s until now.

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Li, S. (2017). Proust and the Chinese Translations. In: Proust, China and Intertextual Engagement. Palgrave Macmillan, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-4454-0_2

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