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Daniel Youd is professor of Chinese language and literature in the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures at Beloit College in Beloit, Wisconsin, where he has taught since 2002. His teaching and research interests include Ming and Qing dynasty vernacular fiction, translation studies, science fiction, and intellectual history. Previously, he has published research related to early modern translations of Chinese fiction into various European languages. He is currently working on a larger study that focuses on the theories of language, translation, and communication that emerged from interactions between Chinese and European cultures from the seventeenth to the early twentieth centuries.