The book examines the reception of Baudelaire in China by translators, critics, scholars, and individual writers. It reveals not only the protean qualities of Baudelaire's work, but developments and trends in Chinese poetry, literary history, and...
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The book examines the reception of Baudelaire in China by translators, critics, scholars, and individual writers. It reveals not only the protean qualities of Baudelaire's work, but developments and trends in Chinese poetry, literary history, and criticism, as well as political and historical context throughout the twentieth and into the twenty-first century
Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Part I: The Critical Reception; Chapter One: Baudelaire and Traditional Chinese Poetry; Chapter Two: Horizons of Reception; Chapter Three: Baudelaire in Chinese Translation; Chapter Four: Baudelaire in Chinese Literary Criticism; Part II: The Creative Response; Chapter Five: Lu Xun and Xu Zhimo; Chapter Six: The Chinese Decadents; Chapter Seven: The Chinese Symbolists; Chapter Eight: From Symbolism to Modernism; Chapter Nine: Other Comparisons; Summary and Conclusions; Appendix 1: Baudelaire's Name in Chinese; Appendix 2: "Correspondances"
Appendix 3: Poems in ChineseWorks Cited-English and French; Works Cited-Chinese; Index
