It takes the average reader 5 hours and 20 minutes to read Lin Shu, Inc. by Michael Gibbs Hill
Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more
How could a writer who knew no foreign languages call himself a translator? How, too, did he become a major commercial success, churning out nearly two hundred translations over twenty years? Lin Shu, Inc. crosses the fields of literary studies, intellectual history, and print culture, offering new ways to understand the stakes of translation in China and beyond. With rich detail and lively prose, Michael Gibbs Hill shows how Lin Shu (1852-1924) rose from obscurity to become China's leading translator of Western fiction at the beginning of the twentieth century. Well before Ezra Pound's and...
Lin Shu, Inc. by Michael Gibbs Hill is 320 pages long, and a total of 80,000 words.
This makes it 108% the length of the average book. It also has 98% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 7 hours and 17 minutes to read Lin Shu, Inc. aloud.
Lin Shu, Inc. is suitable for students ages 12 and up.
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