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1 online resource (291 pages) |
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Routledge Contemporary Japan Series |
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Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Figures; Notes on contributors; Preface; Acknowledgements; Introduction: Modern Japan and the trialectics of translation; Part I: Critical Japanese sources; 1 Maruyama Masao and Kato Shuichi on Translation and Japanese Modernity; 2 Selections by Yanabu Akira; 3 From iro (eros) to ai=love: The case of Tsubouchi Shoyo; 4 On tenko, or ideological conversion; Part II: English-language scholarship; 5 Hokusai's geometry; 6 Sound, scripts, and styles: Kanbun kundokutai and the national language reforms of 1880s Japan |
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7 Monstrous language: The translation of hygienic discourse in Izumi Kyoka's The Holy Man of Mount Koya8 Brave dogs and little lords: Thoughts on translation, gender, and the debate on childhood in mid-Meiji; 9 The New Woman of Japan and the intimate bonds of translation; 10 Making Genji ours: Translation, world literature, and Masamune Hakucho's discovery of The Tale of Genji; Annotated bibliography; Index |
| Summary |
How does the conception of modern Japan as a culture of translation affect our understanding of Japanese modernity and its relation to the East/West divide? And how does the example of a distinctly East Asian tradition of translation affect our understanding of translation itself? This book addresses these questions |
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Print version record |
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Translating and interpreting -- Japan
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Translators -- Japan
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Language and culture -- Japan
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Intercultural communication.
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Intercultural communication
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Language and culture
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Translating and interpreting
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Translators
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Japan
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780203846681 |
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0203846680 |
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