Translating China

by Luo, Xuanmin; He, Yuanjian

• ISBN13: 9781847691873
• ISBN10: 1847691870
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2009-11-25
• Publisher: Multilingual Matters

Summary

The book is a collection of essays on translating various types of text (literary, religious, political, etc.) into and from Chinese. The focus is 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.

Author Biography

Luo Xuanmin is Professor at the Department of Foreign Languages and Literature, and Director of the Center for Translation and Interdisciplinary Studies, Tsinghua University, Beijing. His publications include books, translations and articles in various presses and journals at home and abroad. He is the founding editor of the journal Foreign Languages and Translation, chief editor of Abstracts of Chinese Translation Studies, and is on the advisory/editorial board for several journals. He Yuanjian is Professor at the Department of Translation, the Chinese University of Hong Kong. He is author and co-author of three books on Chinese generative grammar (1996, 2001, 2002) and author and co-author of more than 40 research papers published on translation studies, language typology, and Chinese linguistics

Table of Contents

Introduction

Chinese Cultural Identity and Translation: A Historical Perspective

Chinese Translation of Buddhist Terminology: Language and Culture

Transformer Sinicized and the Making of Chinese Buddhist Parlance

The Art of Misreading: The Jesuit Use of European ôFablesö in Late Ming China

The Politics of Translating Kunqu, the National Heritage

Cooperative Translation Models: Rediscovering Ezra Pound's Approach to Classical Chinese Poetry

Ideology and Literary Translation: On Liang Qi-Chao's Translation Practice

Translating Modernity Towards Translating China

ôAuthenticityö and Foreignizing Translation

Representation, Intervention and Mediation: A Translation Anthologist's Reflections on the Complexities of Translating China

Translating for the Future: Some Reflections on Compiling A Dictionary of Translation Technology

Transplanting Chinese Political and Ideological Discourse

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