Contents -- Acknowledgements 5 -- Introduction 11 -- Mark Gamsa: China as Seen and Imagined by Roger Baron Budberg, a Baltic Physician in Manchuria 23 -- Part 1: Translation and Interpretation 37 -- Henry Rosemont Jr., Roger T. Ames: On Translation & Interpretation 39 -- Frank Kraushaar: Literary Translation as the Inventive Result of Comparative Analysis:The Case of (wen yan) and Latvian 59 -- Ieva Haas: Translating Classical Chinese Poetry into Latvian 65 -- Ayumi Kurosawa: Haiku translated into Latvian 75 -- Tatiana A. Pang: The Manchu Language as a Tool of Western-Chinese Cultural Relations in the 17th and 18th Centuries 89 -- Part 2: Critique and Fine Arts 101 -- Adrian Hsia: Lucien Bodard's Literarization of Jiang Qing or The (Legend of the) Cultural Revolution Revisited 103 -- Katarzyna Sonnenberg: The "Single Leaf " Abroad. The Approaches to Higuchi Ichiyō Outside Japan 121 -- Lucie Bernier: Transformations culturelles ou l'ambiguïté de l'Autre 141 -- Jekaterina Stepanova: Landscape Parks and Chinese gardens: Chinese influence on European Gardening in 18th Century 155 -- Tatsuo Takahashi: The Influence of Japonism on Japanese Modern Literature - Van Gogh and Akutagawa from the Viewpoint of Eco-criticism 165 -- Jekaterina Koort: The Chinese Concept of Blandness (dan) found in the Works of Western Painters 175 -- Sher-shiueh Li: Peking Opera in American Context: Reading Stark Young's Reviews of Mei Lan-fang's New York Performances, February and March, 1930 185.