Translation, Globalisation and Localisation A Chinese Perspective

by Ning, Wang; Yifeng, Sun

• ISBN13: 9781847690531
• ISBN10: 184769053X
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2008-03-28
• Publisher: Multilingual Matters

Summary

This is the first anthology of translation studies edited by two leading Chinese scholars in the field published in the English speaking world. The essays deal with translation studies in a global/local context and from a Chinese perspective. Such cutting edge theoretic topics as globalisation, postcolonial theory, diaspora writing, polysystem theory, and East-West comparative literature and culture studies are discussed in an in-depth and accessible way.

Author Biography

Wang Ning is Professor of English and Director of the Centre for Comparative Literature and Cultural Studies, Tsinghua University. Apart from his numerous publications in Chinese, his English articles frequently appear in such international prestigious journals as New Literary History, Critical Inquiry, boundary 2, ARIEL, Neohelicon, Perspectives: Studies in Translatology, Comparative Literature Studies, Modern Language Quarterly and Semiotica. His most recent publication in English is Globalisation and Cultural Translation (2004).Sun Yifeng is Head and Associate Professor of Department of Translation at Lingnan University, Hong Kong. He is the author of several books and numerous articles in Chinese and English. His most recent book in English entitled Misplaced Anxiety and Cultural Identity: Translations of Foreign Otherness is forthcoming.

Table of Contents

Introduction	p. 1
Historical Overviews
Transvaluing the Global: Translation, Modernity, and Hegemonic Discourse	p. 15
Translation in the Global/Local Tension	p. 31
Translation Studies in China: A 'Glocalized' Theoretical Practice	p. 50
On Cultural Translation: A Postcolonial Perspective	p. 75
Towards Pluralistic and Interdisciplinary Approaches: A Reflection on Translation Studies in Contemporary China	p. 88
Current Developments
A Global View of Translation Studies: Towards an Interdisciplinary Field	p. 111
Transgression and Appropriation in Transnational Cultural Translation: A Deconstructive Observation	p. 127
When a Turning Occurs: Counter-evidence to Polysystem Hypothesis	p. 140
Translating Popular Culture: Feng Xiaogang's Film Big Shot's Funeral as a Polynuclear Text	p. 155
English as a Postcolonial Tool: Anti-hegemonic Subversions in a Hegemonic Language	p. 174
Bibliography	p. 185
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