Controversy, Censorship and Translation

ISBN-13: 9783659207679 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 244 str.

Eva Chen

Opis

This book examines the Chinese response to Lady Chatterleys Lover in both the 1930s and 1980s by focusing on attendant issues of state censorship, the publishing trade, the readership, translators and literary critics. Lawrences novel was translated into Chinese in the 1930s, and its re-issue in the 1980s was the cause of a major censorship controversy where popular aspirations for greater freedom of speech, state backlash and an increasingly market-driven publishing industry all combined to catapult this literary classic into realms beyond the literary and into the cultural and socio-political. A study of the reception of this novel in China thus offers crucial insights into two important periods in Chinas long project toward modernization and nation-building.

O autorze

Dr. Eva Chen received her PhD from the University of Sussex and is currently Professor of English at National Cheng-Chi University, Taiwan. She has published two books and more than twenty peer-reviewed journal papers on women and urban modernity.