The following study inventories the titles of a total of 237 Chinese literary works in French translation published in France between 2000 and 2014, and attempts to explore the rules and conventions governing the translation of literary titles from Chinese to French. It demonstrates the complexity of this process and the multiple challenges devolving on the translator. We examine the four methods of translating a title: literal translation, adaptation, explicitation, and implicitation. Sometimes several of these methods may be employed in the translating of a single title. We will see that the choice of a title is not always to convert into French the words and/or the structure of the title in Chinese. Through the use of various strategies, the translator strives to be faithful to both the spirit of the author and his text. But the translator must also take into account the characteristics of his target language and the customs of a French readership. Here he benefits from a considerable liberty: he can shorten a title or expand it, condense or decompose certain words or structures. Sometimes he has even invented an entirely new title. Our analysis has shown that the great majority of translated titles remain apt to their subject.