History Retold

Leo Tak-hung Chan is Junwu Distinguished Professor, Guangxi University, China. Besides articles in Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies, The Translator, and other journals, he has authored seven books-Western Theory in East Asian Contexts (2020), Readers, Reading and Reception of Translated Fiction in Chinese (2010), Twentieth-Century Chinese Translation Theory (2004), The Discourse on Foxes and Ghosts (1998), Translation in the Post-Babelian Era (2020), and Translation, Adaptation, and Reader Reception (2020) [the last two in Chinese]-and edited One into Many: Translation and the Dissemination of Classical Chinese Literature (2003). He was 2017 CETRA Chair Professor of Translation, University of Leuven, Belgium, and 2018 Humanities and Social Sciences Prestigious Fellow (Hong Kong Research Grants Council).




Zong-qi Cai teaches at Lingnan University of Hong Kong and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He has published thirteen scholarly books in English and five in Chinese, most recent of which are his monograph Grammar and Poetic Visions ????? (2021), his edited volume How to Read Chinese Prose: A Guided Anthology (2022), and his co-authored volume (with Jie Cui and Liu Yucai), How to Read Chinese Prose in Chinese: A Course in Classical Chinese (2022) . He founded/cofounded and edits two Duke University Press journals, Prism: Theory and Modern Chinese Literature and The Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (co-founded with Professor Yuan Xingpei), as well as the Chinese-language Lingnan Journal of Chinese Studies ????." He is also the general co-editor of the Brill book series Chinese Texts in the World, and as well as the Columbia book series How to Read Chinese Literature.