Abstract: It is a unique cultural phenomenon in the study fields of Chinese biography and literature that Western litterateurs have written certain extraterritorial biographies in China.Such biographies,written in a time of the eastward transmission of Western sciences and of the integration between eastern and western cultures,have undergone four stages of development.These biographies are marked with the conflictions and integrations between Chinese and Western concepts of literature,which has fostered the historical process of modernization transformation of Chinese biographies and Chinese literature.It is enlightened that suitable policies of cultural exchanges with foreign countries,and free cultural atmosphere are very important to cultural and literature exchanges between China and Western countries.

Key words: extraterritorial biographies, translation, local creation, cultural exchange