Abstract: By examining the true identity of the translator, the original text, and the research value of “John Dos Passos”, which was translated by Yi Junli and published in The National News (guo min xin wen), this paper points out that the translator is not the previously recognized Mu Shiying, and that the original text of “John Dos Passos” is “Writers in the Wilderness II: John Dos Passos” written by Margaret Marshall in 1940. The discovery of this Chinese translation can be used not only to study the dissemination and reception of Dos Passos in China, but also to show that the literary relationship between Mu Shiying and Dos Passos is constructed by the “shared history” of the West and China in the 20th century.

Key words: The National News, Mu Shiying, John Dos Passos, “shared history”

摘要： 本文考察《国民新闻》载“马歇尔作、蚁镌砾译”的“约翰多帕索士”的译者身份、所据原本及此文之研究价值等三方面问题。指出“蚁镌砾”并非学界前此所认定的穆时英,“约翰多帕索士”的原本为玛格丽特·马歇尔(Margaret Marshall)1940年所撰评论“荒野上的作家”第二篇“约翰·多斯·帕索斯”(Writers in the Wilderness Ⅱ: John Dos Passos)。此文中译本的发现、考定,不仅对研究多斯·帕索斯在中国的传播、接受等问题具有重要参考价值,更表明穆时英与帕索斯的文学渊源乃由20世纪中西方“共有的历史”所构造。

关键词: 《国民新闻》, 穆时英, 约翰·多斯·帕索斯, “共有的历史”