In Modern China and the West: Translation and Cultural Mediation, the authors investigate the significant role translation plays in cultural mediation. Transnational organizations that bring about cross-cultural interactions as well as regulating authorities, in the form of both nation-states and ideologies, are under scrutiny.

Peng Hsiao-yen, Ph.D. (1989), Harvard University, is Researcher of Modern Chinese Literature at Academia Sinica. She has published extensively on China and the West, including Dandyism and Transcultural Modernity: The Dandy, the Flaneur, and the Translator in 1930s Shanghai, Tokyo, and Paris (Routledge, 2010).
Isabelle Rabut, Ph.D. (1992), Institut national des langues et civilisations orientales (INALCO), is Professor of Modern Chinese literature at INALCO. She has published on modern and contemporary authors, especially Shen Congwen, the jingpai writers and Yu Hua. She also has translated into French numerous 20th century literary works.