Emily Dickinson’s Reception in China: A Brief Overview, Part I

• Published in: The Emily Dickinson journal Vol. 21; no. 1; pp. 110 - 116
• Main Author: Wang, Baihua
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Baltimore Johns Hopkins University Press 01.01.2012
• Subjects: 20th century; American literature; Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886); Literary criticism; Literary translation; Literature; Poetry; China

The period between the 1910s and the 1940s, which witnessed a passionate introduction of every possible kind of Western literature in China, only resulted in a few references to Dickinson. Modern Chinese literary figures who studied in Europe and in the United States in the 1910s and 1920s paid much...