As a product of Chu Dongwei's translation workshop in which he translated the quite inspiring booklet by Orison Swett Marden to share with his students of translation, this bilingual book can be used for multiple purposes: as inspirational reading for English speakers who are learning Chinese or the other way round, translation practice material for learners of translation between English and Chinese, or simply as reading for the general bilingual reader. The soul-consuming and friction-wearing tendency of this hurrying, grasping, competing age is the excuse for this booklet. Is it not an...

In this volume, Canadian author Patrick Kavanagh contributes an important piece: "Smutty Moll for a Mattress Jig: Cross-Cultural Collaboration in Beijing," a recollection of his encounter with the late Xiao Qian, who consulted him about the translation of the many colloquialisms while translating nearly-impossible Ulysses into Chinese. We also have Su Tong's masterpiece "West Window" translated by Prof. Feng Zhilin. Fraser Sutherland captures the spirit and subtlety of the story in his commentary with beautifully written lines like "A girl watches through a window. A boy watches the girl."...

Editorial The Importance of Understanding by Chu Dongwei Fiction Libra by Zong Lihua, translated by Hu Zhengmao Father in Town by Chen Cang, translated by Song Tao Nonfiction Willful and Determined by Zhang Yawen, translated by Ying Kong Amid Wind, Flowers, Snow, and Moonlight by Mai Zhibin, translated by Kang Zhihong Culture in Perspective Zong Lihua's "Libra" by Robert Tindol A Revolution, a Review of "Father in Town" by Craig Hulst Chinese Literature and Culture, a journal published three times a year, is devoted to translations of Chinese texts (works from the past or by contemporary...