Charles Dickens and China

From 1895 to 1915, Chinese translations of Dickenss fiction first appeared as part of a growing interest in Western literature and culture among Chinese intellectuals. Klaudia Hiu Yen Lee investigates the multifarious ways in which Dickenss works were adapted, reconfigured and transformed for the Chinese readership, challenging some of the theoretical and conceptual underpinnings of the global turn, both in Dickens scholarship and in Victorian studies in general.