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Despite the sorely noted scarcity of China allusion in the entire body of his works, Hardy remains a favorite Western author for Chinese students and scholars alike. Hastily equipped with critical apparatuses such as ecocriticism, narratology, postcolonialism, translation studies, and comparative literature, they go on a search for intertextual resonances between Hardy and Chinese authors. The search for Hardy and China 'kinship' is driven by the anxiety to place Chinese literature, and indeed Chinese culture/civilization, back on an equal footing of significance with that of the West, and by the angst to find meaning and connectivity in a world that is, despite globalization, increasingly fractured. Although the result is sometimes a mixed bag of insight and impressionistic guesswork, the (re)search for Hardy and China 'kinship' helps shine light on translingual and transcultural convergences despite apparent and sometimes overhyped dissonances between China and the West. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]