• Tian Han’s Adaptations of “Salome” and “The Legend of the White Snake”: Pioneering Feminist Works Bridging East and West

     Tian Han (1898-1968), who studied in Japan in the early 20th century, came into contact with various trends of thought such as socialism, capitalism, anarchism and European avant-garde in Tokyo, a prosperous metropolis. Tian Han and “Salome” became attached to each other. In 1921, Tian Han translated the masterpiece “Salome” by Oscar Wilde, the master of aestheticism. This translation is “always recognized as the best and the most widely spread”, because it completely retains the style of Oscar Wilde’s original work, faithfully The writing skills and language features of Oscar Wilde’s aestheticism in the original script are kept to the end, without any deletion or modification because of the sensual…

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