Contemporary Chinese Literature in Portugal and Brazil

Focusing on developments since the turn of the century, Zhou examines the circulation of contemporary Chinese literature in the Portuguese-speaking world. The book shows how publishing decisions, translated framing, and digital recommendation systems shape the movement of books between differently positioned language worlds and their encounters with readers. To explain why this movement depends on recognition from elsewhere, the concept of the “borrowed periscope” is developed, tracing a work’s entry, framing, and discoverability. Publishing records, books, interviews, reviews, and digital platforms reveal how these processes differ between two countries connected by Portuguese. By connecting translation studies with world literature, publishing, and digital culture, the study provides a transferable framework for examining selection, mediation, and discoverability together. A valuable book for scholars and students of translation studies, Chinese and Lusophone cultures, comparative literature, publishing, book history, and literary exchange beyond dominant language markets.