“As a balancing and rebalancing of different forces involved in translation to avoid or reduce confrontation, this book of collected essays opens up an exciting way of thinking about how the “pushing-hands” approach can be further explored and extended and developed by uncovering the mediating translator’s dialogic engagement and providing a model for working across temporal and cultural differences in producing carefully balanced translations.” – Sun Yi-feng, Professor, Lingnan University

Douglas Robinson is Dean of Arts and Chair Professor of English at Hong Kong Baptist University. A scholar of language, literature, translation, and rhetoric and a translator from Finnish to English since 1975, he is author most recently of Schleiermacher’s Icoses (Zeta Books, 2013), The Dao of Translation (Routledge, 2015), The Deep Ecology of Rhetoric in Mencius and Aristotle (SUNY Press, 2015), and Semiotranslating Peirce (Tartu Semiotics Library, 2015). His current project is an English translation of Finland’s greatest novel, Aleksis Kivi’s Seven Brothers (1870).