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Translating China.
Title:
Translating China.
Author:
Luo, Xuanmin.
ISBN:
9781847691880
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (248 pages)
Series:
Topics in Translation, No. 37 ; v.No. 37

Topics in Translation, No. 37
Contents:
Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Contributors -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 Cultural and Historical Perspectives on Translation in China -- Chapter 2 Chinese Translation of Buddhist Terminology: Language and Culture -- Chapter 3 Transformer Sinicized and the Making of Chinese Buddhist Parlance -- Chapter 4 The Art of Misreading: An Analysis of the Jesuit 'Fables' in Late Ming China -- Chapter 5 The Cultural Politics of Translating Kunqu, the National Heritage -- Chapter 6 Cooperative Translation Models: Rediscovering Ezra Pound's Approach to Classical Chinese Poetry -- Chapter 7 Ideology and Literary Translation: A Brief Discussion on Liang Qi-chao's Translation Practice -- Chapter 8 Translating Modernity Towards Translating China -- Chapter 9 'Authenticity' and Foreignizing Translation -- Chapter 10 Representation, Intervention and Mediation: A Translation Anthologist's Reflections on the Complexities of Translating China -- Chapter 11 Translating for the Future: Some Reflections on Making A Dictionary of Translation Technology -- Chapter 12 Translating Alien Sources from and into Chinese: What does the Translator do, and why? -- Index.
Abstract:
A collection of essays on translating various types of text into and from Chinese. It focuses on how such translations have been produced and propagated from ancient to modern times, and their sociocultural impact on the evolution of Chinese history and Chinese translatology.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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