Translating China
By: edited by Xuanmin Luo and Yuanjian He.
Contributors: Luo, Xuanmin.; He, Yuanjian.
Series: Topics in translation
Publisher: Multilingual Matters
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Buffalo, N.Y
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781847691873; 9781847691880
Subjects: Chinese language -- Translating -- History; Translating and interpreting -- China -- History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / Xuanmin Luo & Yuanjian He; title: Chinese cultural identity and translation: a historical perspective / Xia Li; title: Chinese translation of Buddhist terminology: language and culture / Chi Yu Chu; title: Transformer sinicized and the making of Chinese Buddhist parlance / Francis K. H. So; title: The art of misreading: the Jesuit use of European "fables" in late Ming China / Sher-shiueh Li; title: The politics of translating kunqu, the national heritage / Jessica Yeung; title: Cooperative translation models: rediscovering Ezra Pound's approach to classical Chinese poetry / Sylvia S. L. Ieong; title: Ideology and literary translation: on Liang Qi-Chao's translation practice / Xuanmin Luo; title: Translating modernity towards translating China / Shaobo Xie; title: "Authenticity" and foreignizing translation / Yifeng Sun; title: Representation, intervention and mediation: a translation anthologist's reflections on the complexities of translating China / Martha P. Y. Cheung; title: Translating for the future: some reflections on compiling a dictionary of translation technology / Sin-wai Chan; title: Transplanting Chinese political and ideological discourse / Yuanjian He.