An annotated collection of Czech translations of originally English language essays by Jaroslav Průšek 1906 1980 Milena Doleželová Velingerová 1932 2012 and Zbigniew Słupski 1934 the founder of the Prague School of Sinology and two of his disciples discusses variety of issues related to the profound transformation Chinese literature has undergone on its tortuous path to modernity Jaroslav Průšek s articles Lu Hsün s Huai Chiu : A Precursor of Modern Chinese Literature and Yeh Sheng t ao and Anton Chekhov represent one of the most inspiring results of scholarly output of the Prague school of Sinology in the late 1960s Essays Lu Xun s Medicine and An Early Chinese Confessional Prose: Shen Fu s Six Chapters of a Floating Life by Milena Doleželová Velingerová and Modern Chinese Short Story and its Origins by Zbigniew Słupski exemplify scholarly achievements of the Prague school of Sinology outside Czechoslovakia during 1970s 1980s The collection is accompanied by an article on the achievements of the Prague school of Sinology and its historical background by Olga Lomová and by a study outlining a methodological closeness between the Prague school of Sinology and Czech literary Structuralism by Dušan Andrš
