This volume breaks new ground in the study of literary interactions between Scotland and China, surveying both the role of China in Scottish literature, and the translation and reception of Scottish literature in China.

Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors Part 1: Scottish Writers’ Engagement with China and Its Literature 1 The Thistle and the Dragon: Scottish-Chinese Literary Encounters  Li Li and John Corbett 2 Approaching Otherness: the evolution of James Legge’s Translations of the Chinese Classics  Jiao Lin and Ren Dongsheng 3 Sir Reginald Johnston: a Romantic Scottish Traveller in Modern China  Xu Xi 4 Scottish – Chinese Cross – Cultural Confrontations in Neo – Victorian Novels  Marie-Luise Kohlke 5 The Dragon Lady: a Chinese Pirate Woman in Eric Linklater’s Byronic Parodies  Charles Lowe 6 Chinese Poetry in Scots: From Pre-Modernist to Ethical Translation  John Corbett 7 ‘Chinese Makars’: a Chinese-Scots Poetry Translation Workshop  Garry MacKenzie Part 2: The Translation and Reception of Scottish Literature in China 8 The Translation and Reception of Robert Burns in China  Li Suping 9 ‘Drifting Down the Stream of a Deep and Smooth River’: the Translation and Film Adaptation of Ivanhoe in the Modern History of Taiwan  Chiu Kang-yen 10 Robert Louis Stevenson in Mainland China: the Translation and Reception of Treasure Island  Jiang Shuqin 11 From Sherlock Holmes to Zhentan and Beyond: Arthur Conan Doyle in China  Karen Seago and Victoria Lei 12 Contemporary Scottish Drama in China, 1982–2022  Liu Qiang and Wang Lan 13 Translating Musicality in Poetry: Hugh MacDiarmid’s ‘the Eemis Stane’ in Chinese  Li Li and Kong Hao 14 Mediating Language, Trauma and Nature: the Translation of Lewis Grassic Gibbon’s Sunset Song into Chinese  Zhu Ying and Liu Aihua 15 Mediating John Galt: Translating the Entail into Chinese  Cai Nana 16 Nan Shepherd’s the Living Mountain, the Chinese Classics and Contemporary Environmentalism  Lau Ngar Wai and Zhang Xi 17 Translation and Cultural Mediation: Repositioning Claire McFall’s Ferryman for the Chinese Market  Li Li Index