Translatability and Transmediality

Contributors to this special issue discuss and investigate how Chinese poetry—from antiquity to the present—interacts with the world via the crisscrossed routes of translation, dissemination, diaspora, mediation, transmission, reception, reincarnation, and return. The authors discuss the life and afterlife of Chinese poetry beyond the geographical boundary of China; and, in doing so, examine the politics and poetics of world literature.

Contributors: Nick Admussen, Cosima Bruno, Jacob Edmond, Yunte Huang, Lucas Klein, Xiaorong Li, Haun Saussy, Chris Song, Maghiel Van Crevel, Shengqing Wu, Hangping Xu, Lianjun Yan, Michelle Yeh