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Uncle Tom's Cabin: The First American Novel Translated into Chinese

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 July 2009

Tao Jie
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When president Lincoln met Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe in 1862 and remarked, “So this is the little lady that started the great big war,” he never imagined that, forty years later, this fictional attack on slavery would cause quite a stir culturally and politically on the other side of the globe, in China.

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Prospects , Volume 18 , October 1993 , pp. 517 - 534
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1993

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