Sándor Petőfi from the Perspective of Modern China—The Chinese Translation of His Epigram

If literary translation is considered to be a particular kind of writing, the significance of translated works may reflect certain literary and spiritual traditions within modern Chinese literature. The status of those works, during certain eras, may reflect characteristics of national literature, and in modern Chinese literary history this is especially the case where the translators of those works, being at the same time important writers, were also the interpreters of them. This being so, it is necessary to include the history of modern translation as a constituent of the history of modern Chinese literature, and to pay it special attention.