The Reception of Harold Shadick’s Translation of The Travels of Lao Ts’an in the English World
Abstract
As the masterpiece of late Qing novelist Liu E, The Travels of Lao Ts’an has received extensive attention from scholars both in China and abroad since its birth. This article intends to examine the reception of Shadick’s version in the English world from three dimensions: comments on Shadick’s translation, research on the novel itself, and the comparative study on the novel.References
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