Modern China and the west : translation and cultural mediation / edited by Peng Hsiao-yen and Isabelle Rabut.

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9789004270220
9004270221
9781306493611
1306493617

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Modern China and the West.DDC classification:

418.020951 22

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P306.8.C6 .M63 2014

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Contents:

China-Europe: transcontinental "intellectual cooperation" during the interwar period / Françoise Kreissler -- Ba Jin as translator / Angel Pino -- Eileen Chang as a Chinese translator of American literature / Shan Te-hsing -- The birth of a profession: translators and translation in modern China / Nicolai Volland -- Force of psyche: electricity or void? Re-examination of the hermeneutics of the force of psyche in late Qing China / Joyce C.H. Liu -- Translating liberalism into China in the early twentieth century: the case of Yan Fu / Max K.W. Huang -- Chinese romanticism: the acculturation of a western notion / Isabelle Rabut -- Mapping a "new" dramatic canon: rewriting the legacy of Hong Shen / Xiaomei Chen -- The Shanghai school: westernised urbanity and scriptural mimesis / Zhang Yinde -- Traveling text: souvenirs entomologiques, Japanese anarchism, and Shanghai neo-sensationism / Peng Hsiao-yen -- From poetic revolution to nation-(re)building: vicissitudes of modernity in modern Chinese poetry / Sebastian Hsien-hao Liao -- Ghostly China: Amy Tan's narrative of transnational haunting in The Hundred Secret Senses, The Bonesetter's Daughter, and Saving Fish from Drowning / Pin-chia Feng.

Summary: 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.

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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.