本书为作者十五年来根据第一手材料研究中国翻译史的心血结晶，也是她告别译学界的最后一部作品，无论在材料、方法、理解及宏观史学各方面，都与中国翻译学现有的作品明显不同。

-- Voice Literary Supplement</P><br/><br/>
With a generous selection of new translations commissioned for this book, readers will find the best short fiction, poetry, and essays from mainland China, Taiwan, and Hong Kong in this first comprehensive collection of twentieth-century Chinese literature, which includes a lucid introduction by the editors and short biographies of the writers and poets.</P>