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London and New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2024, x+459 pp.  \nReviewed by Baorong Wang  \nTo cite this article: Reviewed by Baorong Wang (2025) The Bloomsbury Handbook of Modern Chinese Literature in Translation, Translation Review, 121: 1, 72-75, DOI: 10. 1080/07374836 .2025.2471249  \nTo link to this article: [https://doi.org/10.1080/07374836.2025.2471249](https://doi.org/10.1080/07374836.2025.2471249)  \n Published online: 25 Mar 2025.  \n\n|  Submit your article to this journal  |  |\n| --- | --- |\n| | Article views: 32 |\n| | View related articles  |\n|  View Crossmark data |  |\n\nFull Terms & Conditions of access and use can be found at [https://www.tandfonline.com/action/journalInformation?journalCode=utrv20](https://www.tandfonline.com/action/journalInformation?journalCode=utrv20)  \nTRANSLATION REVIEW  \n2025, VOL. 121, NO. 1, 72–75  \nBOOK REVIEW  \nCosima Bruno, Lucas Klein, and Chris Song, eds. The Bloomsbury Handbook of Modern Chinese Literature in Translation. London and New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2024, x+459 pp.  \nReviewed by Baorong Wang  \nSince Mo Yan’s Nobel Prize win in 2012, scholarly attention to the translation and dissemination of Chinese literature has surged. This is in part reflected in the recent publication of several books, including A Century of Chinese Literature in Translation (1919–2019): English Publication and Reception, edited by Leah Gerber and Lintao Qi (2021); Chinese Literature in the World: Dissemination and Translation Practices, edited by Junfeng Zhao, Defeng Li, and Riccardo Moratto (2022); and Transcultural Poetics: Chinese Literature in English Translation, edited by Yifeng Sun and Dechao Li (2023) . These volumes are small in size, with only a dozen chapters or so each, although this alone does not diminish their value. High expectations thus accompany a hefty volume recently brought out by Bloomsbury Academic. Its three co-editors claim that, given the standard teaching model which “either instrumentalizes translation, making it invisible, or else emphasizes loss in translation,” they intend to“propose a translation- and translation studies-centered discussion of modern Chinese literature”(1) . Their handbook portrays translation “as a model for tracing critical aspects of the encounters and clashes between Chinese literature and other literatures of the world” (4) . Hence, its thirty-four chapters deal not just with modern (used here to encompass the twentieth and twenty-first centuries) Chinese literature translated into other languages, but  \nalso with foreign literary works translated into Chinese, producing a mismatch between the latter and the book’s title. This review focuses on the contributions addressing the central theme, while acknowledging that the unreviewed ones are equally worth reading.  \nThe handbook is arranged into three parts. The six contributions included in Part 1,“The Plural Aesthetics of Translation,” directly concern modern Chinese literature in translation. In “Translations as Versions in Modern Chinese Literature,” Nick Admussen explores this under-discussed topic in his title. Citing Lao She’s masterpiece novel骆驼祥子(Rickshaw Boy) in English as well as several contemporary Chinese writers and their translators, he endeavors to create a workable theory of the version, identifying the active role that specialist readers must play in “versioning” translated literature, that is, choosing one translation of a particular Chinese work after attending to its genetic relationships with potentially multiple previous versions. Admussen argues that this can play a determining role in the work’s reception. 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