Introduction

Rationale for the Study

Translation history and its position in Holmes'Map

The definition and divisions of translation history

Theoretical Preliminaries

Polysystem Theory

Norm Theory

Multiple Causality Theory

Literature Review

Previous research on translation history

Research on SF translation in the West and China

Overview of the Book

Part One Science Fiction and Its Development as a Literary Genre in China

The Name and Nature of Science Fiction

The Development of Chinese SF in the 20th Century

The budding of Chinese SF in Late Qing and Republic periods

The First Tide of Chinese SF in the 1950s

The Golden Age of Chinese SF in the 1980s

The Flourish of Chinese SF in the 1990s

Part Two An Exploration into SF Translation in 20th-century China:Five Case Studies

Yuejie Lüxing（《月界旅行》，1903）：Epitome ofthe First Wave of SF Translation

Jules Verne and De la Terre à la Lune(1865)

Lu Xun,the Translator

China in the Early 20th Century

The influence of Japan

The rise of publishing industry

The Early 20th-Century Literature

Tradition versus innovation

The rise of New Fiction

Translation Tendencies in Early 20th-Century China

The wave of literary translation

The trend of free translation

Weilai Shijie（《未来世界》，1934）：An Exceptional Case in the Low-tide Period of SF Translation between 1920s and 1940s

H.G.Wells and The Shape of Things to Come(1933)

The Chinese Society in the Republic Era

The influence of the May Fourth Movement

The threat of war in the 1930s

Literary Tendencies in the Republic Era

Translation Norms in the Republic Era

Shuilu Liangqi Ren（《水陆两栖人》，1958）：The Soviet Model and the Second Wave of SF Translation

Alexander Belyaev and the Soviet SF Tradition

The Soviet SF tradition

Alexander Belyaev and The Amphibious(1928)

The Chinese Society in the Early PRC Years

Socialist construction and the march toward science

The publishing industry after 1949

The Chinese Literature in the Early PRC Years

Translation Norms in the Early PRC Years

Wo,Jiqiren（《我，机器人》，1981）：Opening Up to the Outside World in the Golden Age of Chinese SF

Isaac Asimov and I,Robot(1950)

The Chinese Society in the Late 1970s and Early 1980s

Literary Tendencies in the Late 1970s and Early 1980s

Translation Norms in the Late 1970s and Early 1980s

Shenjing Langyouzhe（《神经浪游者》，1999）：Cyberpunk's First Encounter with China in the Fourth Wave of SF Translation

William Gibson and Neuromancer(1984)

The Chinese Society in the 1990s

Economic and scientific advancement in the 1990s

The influence of globalization

Literary Trends in the 1990s

Translation Tendencies in the 1990s

Part Three Translation and the Spread of a Genre in China

Science Fiction as an Imported Genre

Translation and the birth of the SF genre

Translation and the literary evolution in the genre

The Concept of the Genre vs.The Policies of Translation

From"science"to"fiction":(mis)conception of the genre and its influence on SF translation

Cultural elements and neologsms in SF vs.the policies of translation

Conclusion

Significance of the Study

Possibilities for Future Research

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