Literary Eastern Europe from the Viewpoint of Sino-Foreign Literary Relations -- The Beginnings of the Chinese Translation of Eastern European Literature in the Late Qing and Early Republic of China -- Translating the Literature of the Weak and Small Nations in the May Fourth Era -- Translation and Introduction of Eastern European Literature in the 1930s and 1940s -- Translating the Literature of Marginalized Nations and the Construction of a National Culture in the People’s Republic of China.-Sándor Petőfi from the Perspective of Modern China – The Chinese Translation of His Epigram -- The Different Reception of Henryk Sienkiewicz, Julius Fučík and Bertolt Brecht in China -- Milan Kundera in China -- Esperanto and the Translation of the Literature of the Marginalized Nations -- The Research and Translation of Eastern European Literature in the first 60 years of the PRC -- National Consciousness VS. Cosmopolitan Consciousness: Rabindranath Tagore in China -- The Significance of the Literature of Marginalized Nations in Sino-Foreign Literary Relations – With a Focus on Eastern European Literature.

This book presents the first systematic study of the 100-year history of translation, research, reception, and influence of Central and Eastern European literature in China from the late Qing Dynasty to the end of the twentieth century. This study of Eastern European literature from the perspective of Sino-foreign literary relations is based on extensive research into the translation and reception of Central and Eastern European writers such as Milan Kundera, Sándor Petőfi, Henryk Sienkiewicz, Julius Fucik, and Bertolt Brecht. Since the late nineteenth century, the major Chinese writers have paid special attention to the literature of the marginalized Eastern European nations when they have to translate from translations since few of them understand Eastern European languages. The book seeks to identify what attracted the founders of new Chinese literature to Eastern European literature and to define its unique significance for the construction of modern Chinese literature. .