In translation between Chinese and English, there exists a special phenomenon. When English literary works about "Chinese stories" are translated back into Chinese again, it has something to do with cultural reconstruction, or a sort of back-translation. "Moment in Peking", one of Dr. Lin Yutangs representatives, is a typical example of such writings. This book is intended to probe the cultural aspects of "Moment in Peking" and the reconstruction issue in its two Chinese versions. Based on Peter Newmarks cultural categories model, this book makes a detailed comparative study of the two...