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Translingual Practice: Literature, National Culture, and Translated Modernity: China, 1900-1937. By Lydia H. Liu. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1995. Pp. xx + 474.

Translation is an essential part of any effort in comparative studies. As Lydia H. Liu puts it in her book Translingual Practice: "Strictly speaking, comparative scholarship can do nothing but translate" (p. 1). Therefore, a clearer understanding of the complexities involved in translating works into and fr...