An interesting article. Without disputing anything said in that article I'd 
add that the earliest Chinese translations of Twain were not the little 
political satire discussed in the article, rather some of the same works 
that were popular all around the world in those years --The Gilded Age in 
1915, an extract from Answers to Correspondents in 1931 (I seem to own the 
only recorded copy, a parallel English/Chinese text in miniature book 
format), Tom Sawyer in 1934, Prince and the Pauper in 1937, and a couple of 
short story collections in 1934. I think all of these were published in 
Shanghai. OCLC records a few more from the 1940s-50s, but of course there's 
no indication of what was being read in schools like the piece cited in the 
article. I think it would be interesting to trace the timing of these 
publications with political and cultural changes taking place in China in 
those years to see how they might be related. Tracing the contents of the 
story collections might be challenging since OCLC records very few copies in 
libraries. Hey, I'm just tossing this out there as a possble topic for a 
paper at the next Elmira conference. If somebody tackles it, I promise to 
attend that session, heck or high water.

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> Mark Twain Forum members (especially those who have attended Elmira 
> College's International Conferences on the State of Mark Twain Studies) 
> will find this informative article of great interest:
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> http://sinosphere.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/01/06/the-curious-and-continuing-appeal-of-mark-twain-in-china/?_r=0
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