preface foreword chapter one self-making and the accidental tralator �� the search for self �� the buildup of a tralator's potential in self-making �� moonlighting as a tralator chapter two song of the self: the xingling poetics of literature and tralation �� expressing the self: an advocate of xingling literature �� xingling in tralation �� dimeio of taste: tralation criticism in the framework fidelity, fluency, and beauty �� lin yutang's contribution to tralation studies chapter three tralation as self-expression: the tralator's intervention in the world �� tralation in lin yutang's system of self-expression �� the tralator's intervention in the world for change toward the better �� supra-textual unconventionality chapter four tralation as self-expression: strateaic shifts in tralating �� the tralation continuum: a framework of observation �� lin yutang's strategic shifts along the tralation continuum �� lin yutang's strategic shifts. a comparative study �� making see of sign with seitivity chapter five manipulating tralation: the author-tralator interpreted �� manipulating tralation for self-representation �� maneuvering in contradictio books attributed to lin yutang lin yutang tralation timeline bibliography