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French Translations of the Chinese Vernacular Erotic Novel of the Ming and Qing Dynasties: A Brief Overview

Pierre Kaser

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Having a long and rich tradition of its own in this literary genre, France can be proud to provide the French reading public with a rather broad selection of erotic literature that found an audience in China—as well as further afield, particularly in Japan—during the final two dynasties (Ming and Qing). These texts have survived in spite of being the targets of waves of proscriptions from very early on in their history. Between the early 1960s and the beginning of the twenty-first century, at least twenty works have been made available to a French audience, at first, rather clumsily, but as time went on, with more relevance and efficiency. This overview adopts a historical approach, as well as conducting a critical inventory of the translations of this type of literature, from the first attempts to translate Jin Ping Mei into French, to the latest publications that include the best editions of this corpus (namely the “Siwuxie huibao” 思無邪匯寶 series, edited by Chan Hing-ho 陳慶浩 in Taiwan). It also casts a critical eye over the way in which the various agents involved in this venture (sinologists, translators, and editors) have conceived of their work.
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hal-03641746 , version 1 (14-04-2022)

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Pierre Kaser. French Translations of the Chinese Vernacular Erotic Novel of the Ming and Qing Dynasties: A Brief Overview. Lintao Qi; Shani Tobias. Encountering China’s Past : Translation and Dissemination of Classical Chinese Literature, Springer Singapore, pp.101-123, 2022, New Frontiers in Translation Studies, 978-981-19-0647-3. ⟨10.1007/978-981-19-0648-0_7⟩. ⟨hal-03641746⟩
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