This collection of essays, unquestionably a first of its kind, examines the challenges of translating Ovid into Chinese and the emerging role Ovid’s poetry has played in Chinese culture, including material culture and comparative studies in a wide international context.

Contents Ovid in China Timeline List of Illustrations Notes on Contributors Introduction  Thomas J. Sienkewicz and Jinyu Liu 1 Western Classics / Ovid in China: An Overview  Fritz-Heiner Mutschler 穆啟樂 2 Late Ming Jesuits and Western Classicism  Sher-shiueh Li 李奭學 3 Ovid on China: Images from Illustrated Suites of Scenes from Ovid on Eighteenth-Century Chinese Export Porcelain  William Motley 4 Scenes from Ovid’s Metamorphoses on Four 18th-Century Chinese Export Porcelain Punchbowls  Thomas J. Sienkewicz 5 An Early Chinese Translation of an Ovidian Quotation  Chen Wang 王晨 6 Ovid’s Debut in Chinese: Translating the Ars Amatoria into the Republican Discourse of Love  Xinyao Xiao 肖馨瑤 and Yumiao Bao 包雨苗 7 Translating Ovid into Chinese: Challenges and Strategies  Jinyu Liu 8 Writing in Misfortune: Ovid’s Heroides in Light of Chinese Poetic Perspectives  Chun Liu 劉淳 9 Translating Laughter: Literature, Language, Genre, and Culture  Caleb M. X. Dance and Kang Zhai 翟康 10 Ego sum praeceptor amoris: Ovid’s Art of Seduction for the Chinese Audience  Xinyao Xiao 11 Liberal Arts and Face Cosmetics: Ovid’s Medicamina into Mandarin  Pei Yun Chia 謝佩芸 and Steven Green 12 Experimenting with a Poetic Form in the Chinese Translation of the Metamorphoses  Kang Zhai 13 Themes of Women’s Vengeance and Filicide in Ovid’s Metamorphoses: Reception and Comparison in Modern Chinese Literature  Ying Xiong 熊瑩 14 Translating Fasti: Bringing Ovid’s Roman Year to China  Chen Wang 王晨 15 Translating Time: Writing the Calendar in Early China and Ancient Rome  Heng Du 杜恆 16 The Voice of the Exiled Poet: A Translator’s Perspective  Jinyu Liu 17 Retelling Two Exiles in Rome and China: Philosophical Comfort, Literary Consolation, and the Impossible Mourning  Chenye Shi 石晨葉 Index