Clothing the "Chinese Lady" in "Her New English Garb": Thomas Percy's Hau Kiou Choaan (1761) and the Naturalization of Chinese Fiction in Eighteenth-Century Britain.
Hau Kiou Choaan, an English translation of the seventeenth-century Chinese fiction Haoqiu Zhuan, attained recognition from publishers after Thomas Percy made substantial alterations. Percy and his fellow writers referred to this process as "naturalization." This article explores Percy's translation...
| Publicado en: | Eighteenth Century Fiction Vol. 37; no. 3; pp. 452 - 485 |
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