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The Translator's Mirror for the Romantic: Cao Xueqin's 'Dream' and David Hawkes' 'Stone'

In Chinese-language scholarship, study of the English (and more rarely, in other languages) translations of Chinese literature has been a popular topic for more than a decade. The existence of the series in which this book appears, Routledge Studies in Chinese Translation, is an indication of the gr...

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Published in:	Chinese literature, essays, articles, reviews essays, articles, reviews, 2022, Vol.44, p.323-326
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