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Author Chan, Leo Tak-hung

Title History Retold Premodern Chinese Texts in Western Translation
Published New York : BRILL, 2022

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Description 1 online resource (317 p.)
Series Chinese Texts in the World Ser
Chinese Texts in the World Ser
Contents Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Notes on Contributors -- Chapter 1. Introduction: Translation Histories, Micro and Macro (Chan and Cai) -- Part 1. Texts in History -- Chapter 2. The "Double Effect" of Translation in Jean-Pierre Abel-Rémusat's Iu-Kiao-Li (Youd) -- Chapter 3. Peritextual Performance: Théodore Pavie's Histoire des Trois Royaumes (Bramao-Ramos) -- Chapter 4. From Scripture to Literature: Translations of the Shijing by James Legge and Arthur Waley (Wu) -- Part 2. Untold Microhistories
Chapter 5. Sinological Positioning: The Giles-Waley Debate and the Inception of Arthur Waley's Chinese Translations, 1917-1922 (Lin) -- Chapter 6. Monkey's Peregrinations in the West: An Archival Study of Publishers' Reception of Arthur Waley's Translation of the Xiyouji (Qi) -- Chapter 7. The Making of a Book of Wisdom: Hermann Keyserling and Richard Wilhelm's I Ging (Hon) -- Part 3. Toward the Macrohistorical -- Chapter 8. The Genesis of Dao Knowledge at the Beginning of Orientalism (Wei)
Chapter 9. Dreams and Plums of World Literature: The Honglou meng and Jin Ping Mei in English (1827-1939) (Schonebaum) -- Coda: Histoire Croisée and the Early European Translators: Missionaries, Scholars, Aesthetes (Chan) -- Index of Individuals and Institutions -- Index of Texts Cited -- Index of Subjects
Notes Description based upon print version of record
Form Electronic book
Author Cai, Zong-qi
ISBN 9789004521322
9004521321