| Description |
1 online resource (xv, 357 pages) |
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East Asian Comparative Literature and Culture ; VOLUME 2 |
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East Asian comparative literature and culture ; v. 2.
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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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Language and culture -- China
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FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY -- Multi-Language Phrasebooks.
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LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Alphabets & Writing Systems.
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LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Grammar & Punctuation.
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LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Linguistics -- General.
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LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Readers.
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LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Spelling.
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Diplomatic relations
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Language and culture
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Vertalen.
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| SUBJECT |
China -- Foreign relations -- Western countries
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Western countries -- Foreign relations -- China
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| Subject |
China
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Western countries
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Peng, Xiaoyan, 1952- editor.
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Rabut, Isabelle, editor.
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| ISBN |
9789004270220 |
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9004270221 |
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9781306493611 |
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1306493617 |
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