Publication History
Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress has been translated from the original language. The novel was first published in France in the French language"in 2000, and since then, rights of the book have been sold in nineteen countries. However, the novel has not been translated to Chinese because of statements that Sijie has "blackened the characters of the peasants and treated them like idiots", and that the changes that the characters go through should be "the result of reading a Chinese book". The English translation of Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress by Ina Rilke is published by the company Knopf and has been praised for its clarity.”
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