Hong Shen’s adaptive translation of Lady Windermere’s Fan was a great commercial and artistic success． However, situated in the “New Culture” movement of his time as one of its cultural leaders, his translation manifests his partial unresponsiveness to the Aesthetic elements in the play, as is illustrated by the metamorphosis of the Wildean Aesthete Lord Augustus in the original play into the clownish cuckold Wu Ba, a typically despicable character in the Chinese culture．