In his translated version of Uncle Tom’s cabin

Lin Shu seemed to leave three critical mistranslations including translating the same names in different ways

deleting and reducing Christianity and refining title translation "yutian".By this he created a new image of Tom different from the original work.However

we should deem that it is not faulty expressions but purposeful "misreading"

and that Lin adopted this kind of purposeful mistranslation in order to awake Chinese at that time.Actually

propelled by ideological enlightenment and restricted by social traditional culture

Lin Shu had to change and rewrite some parts of original versions to fulfill readers’ reading habits and appreciations at that era.Nevertheless

he also gradually understood foreign literatures and innovated Chinese fictions through selection

adoption and absorption

which cultivated modern translation conception consequently.