Preface Foreword Chapter One Self-Making and the Accidental Tralator Ⅰ The Search for Self Ⅱ The Buildup of a Tralator's Potential in Self-Making Ⅲ Moonlighting as a Tralator Chapter Two Song of the Self: the Xingling Poetics of Literature and Tralation Ⅰ Expressing the Self: an Advocate of Xingling Literature Ⅱ Xingling in Tralation Ⅲ Dimeio of Taste: Tralation Criticism in the Framework Fidelity, Fluency, and Beauty Ⅳ Lin Yutang's Contribution to Tralation Studies Chapter Three Tralation as Self-Expression: the Tralator's Intervention in the World Ⅰ Tralation in Lin Yutang's System of Self-Expression Ⅱ The Tralator's Intervention in the World for Change toward the Better Ⅲ Supra-Textual Unconventionality Chapter Four Tralation as Self-Expression: Strateaic Shifts in Tralating Ⅰ The Tralation Continuum: a Framework of Observation Ⅱ Lin Yutang's Strategic Shifts along the Tralation Continuum Ⅲ Lin Yutang's Strategic Shifts. A Comparative Study Ⅳ Making See of Sign with Seitivity Chapter Five Manipulating Tralation: the Author-Tralator Interpreted Ⅰ Manipulating Tralation for Self-Representation Ⅱ Maneuvering in Contradictio Books Attributed to Lin Yutang Lin Yutang Tralation Timeline Bibliography