Lin Shu, Inc.: Translation and the Making of Modern Chinese Culture

Lin Shu, Inc. explores the dynamic interactions between literary translation, commercial publishing, and the politics of ＂traditional＂ Chinese culture in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. It breaks new ground as the first full-length study in any Western language on the career and works of Lin Shu and his many collaborators in the publishing, academic, and business worlds. Integrating literary scholarship, translation studies, and print history, this book provides new insights into a controversial figure in world literature and his place in the profound transformations in authorship and cultural production in modern China.

Michael Gibbs Hill is Assistant Professor of Chinese and Comparative Literature at the University of South Carolina.