Norman Mailer in China

Criticism and Translation

Authors

  • Hujun Ren Sichuan International Studies University Author

Keywords:

transnational literary criticism, literary translation studies, existentialism, New Journalism, postwar American fiction, comparative literary studies

Abstract

Norman Mailer did not draw attention from Chinese critics until 1979 when the first Chinese critical article on “The White Negro” introduced Mailer to Chinese readers. Since that time, Mailer has been drawing attention from Chinese critics, and so far, there have been two books, three PhD dissertations, and ten Master of Arts theses on Mailer as well as over 100 scholarly or semi-scholarly articles on or related to him and his works. Eight works by Mailer have been translated into Chinese.

Author Biography

  • Hujun Ren, Sichuan International Studies University

    Hujun Ren is Professor of English at Sichuan International Studies University, Chongqing, China. He received his Master of Arts in English Language and Literature from Northwest Normal University in 1998 and his Ph.D. in English Language and Literature from Nankai University in 2005. His publications on Norman Mailer include one book (Individualism or Egalitarianism?: A Cultural Critique of Power and Morality in the Fiction of Norman Mailer, Lanzhou: Lanzhou University Press, 2007) and several articles which appeared in such academic journals as Contemporary Foreign Literature and Foreign Language and Literature. He is currently working at a book on Norman Mailer’s novels.

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Published

2026-10-09

Issue

Vol. 7 No. 1 (2013): A Double Life • Mind of an Outlaw

Section

Articles