An Unscientific Story

is a short religious story published by the American female writer Louise Strong in the famous magazine

Metropolis

in 1903

which has started an extraordinary journey of East-West communication since then. In modern East Asia

excerpts of the novel were translated twice by the famous Meiji translator Hara Hoitsuan under the title of

The Art of Creating Humanity

and published in the same year. It was then translated by Lu Xun and Bao Tianxiao in 1906. The translation of it in modern East Asia reflects the social context and literary landscape of the overall westernization of Japan and the popularity of science fiction

as well as the beginning of the intellectual class's attention to national character and feminine issues in early modern China. At the end of the 20

th

century

it came back to life as it was included in the vampire novels

Dracula

’

s Brood

which then extended the two dimensions of the translation themed Vampires and Love and the writing of female horror novels in Europe and the United States

thus entering the current literary field with a new appearance against its original intention

which is an epitome of how current consumerism influences literary development. The cross-cultural journey of

An Unscientific Story

between the East and the West typically demonstrates how literary works establish their own value and attributes in a variety of cultural forms.