Renditions no. 75 (Spring 2011) Transwriting: Translated Literature and Late-Ming

Transwriting: Translated Literature and Late-Ming Jesuits is the first title of the series

characters and motifs from traditional Chinese fiction and history satirize the conduct of the war

87 & 88 is entirely devoted to translations of and introductions to works of fiction produced in urban China in the years between 1916 and 1949

touching on various aspects of the institutional and intellectual backgrounds that informed their writings

culminating in his suicide and the death of his wife in 1993

Renditions no. 75 (Spring 2011) Transwriting: Translated Literature and Late-MingSpecial Section: The Seventies This issue focuses on a set of translations from the collection of reminiscences edited by Bei Dao and Li Tuo, The Seventies. A compendium of writings on their experiences of the decade that has proved so pivotal to contemporary China by a large group of writers who lived through it, the work has attracted great attention in the Chinese speaking world. Also included is a prizewinning translation of the first three