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Author Ning, Wang

Title Translation, Globalisation and Localisation : a Chinese Perspective
Published Clevedon : Multilingual Matters, 2008

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Description 1 online resource (208 pages)
Series Topics in Translation
Topics in translation.
Contents Contents; Notes on Contributors; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Part 1 Historical Overviews; Chapter 1 Transvaluing the Global: Translation, Modernity and Hegemonic Discourse; Chapter 2 Translation in the Global/Local Tension; Chapter 3 Translation Studies in China: A 'Glocalised' Theoretical Practice; Chapter 4 On Cultural Translation: A Postcolonial Perspective; Chapter 5 Towards Pluralistic and Interdisciplinary Approaches: A Reflection on Translation Studies in Contemporary China; Part 2 Current Developments
Chapter 6 A Global View of Translation Studies: Towards an Interdisciplinary FieldChapter 7 Transgression and Appropriation in Transnational Cultural Translation: A Deconstructive Observation; Chapter 8 When a Turning Occurs: Counter-evidence to Polysystem Hypothesis; Chapter 9 Translating Popular Culture: Feng Xiaogang's Film Big Shot's Funeral as a Polynuclear Text; Chapter 10 English as a Postcolonial Tool: Anti-hegemonic Subversions in a Hegemonic Language; Bibliography
Summary Includes essays that deal with translation studies in a global/local context and from a Chinese perspective. This title discusses topics such as globalisation, postcolonial theory, diaspora writing, polysystem theory, and East-West comparative literature and culture studies
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Subject Translating and interpreting.
Translating and interpreting -- China
Globalization.
Postcolonialism.
Language and culture.
globalism.
postcolonialism.
Globalization
Language and culture
Postcolonialism
Translating and interpreting
China
Form Electronic book
Author Yifeng, Sun
ISBN 9781847690548
1847690548