
Modern China and the West : Translation and Cultural Mediation.
Title:
Modern China and the West : Translation and Cultural Mediation.
Author:
Peng, Hsiao-yen.
ISBN:
9789004270220
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Edition:
1st ed.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (373 pages)
Series:
East Asian Comparative Literature and Culture ; v.2
East Asian Comparative Literature and Culture
Contents:
Contents -- Series Editors' Foreword -- Contributor Biographical Information -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Section I Translators and Cultural Actors as Mediators -- 1 China-Europe: Transcontinental "Intellectual Cooperation" during the Interwar Period -- 2 Ba Jin as Translator -- 3 Eileen Chang as a Chinese Translator of American Literature -- 4 The Birth of a Profession: Translators and Translation in Modern China -- Section II Translation as a Shaping Force -- 5 Force of Psyche: Electricity or Void? Re-examination of the Hermeneutics of the Force of Psyche in Late Qing China -- 6 Translating Liberalism into China in the Early Twentieth Century: The Case of Yan Fu -- 7 Chinese Romanticism: The Acculturation of a Western Notion -- 8 Mapping a "New" Dramatic Canon: Rewriting the Legacy of Hong Shen -- Section III Transcultural Negotiations -- 9 The Shanghai School: Westernised Urbanity and Scriptural Mimesis -- 10 A Traveling Text: Souvenirs entomologiques, Japanese Anarchism, and Shanghai Neo-Sensationism -- 11 From Poetic Revolution to Nation-(Re)building: Vicissitudes of Modernity in Modern Chinese Poetry -- 12 Ghostly China: Amy Tan's Narrative of Transnational Haunting in The Hundred Secret Senses, The Bonesetter's Daughter, and Saving Fish from Drowning -- Index.
Abstract:
In Modern China and the West: Translation and Cultural Mediation, the authors investigate the significant role translation plays in cultural mediation. Transnational organizations that bring about cross-cultural interactions as well as regulating authorities, in the form of both nation-states and ideologies, are under scrutiny.
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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