Lin Shu and the Routes of World Literature

Abstract

Lin Shu (1852–1924) and his collaborators served as an important conduit for world literature in early twentieth‐century China, rendering the work of authors such as Harriet Beecher Stowe, Charles Dickens, and Alexandre Dumas into Chinese for the first time. His ideas about the role of translated literature, as well as younger intellectuals' disavowal of his work, offer new lines of comparative research on translation in China and other parts of the world.