Translating China
By: edited by Luo Xuanmin and He Yuanjian.
Contributors: Luo, Xuanmin.; He, Yuanjian.
Series: Topics in translation
Publisher: Multilingual Matters
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Bristol, UK; Buffalo [N.Y.]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 236
ISBN-13: 9781847691873; 9781847691866; 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: Cultural and historical perspectives on translation in China / Li Xia; 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 : an analysis of the Jesuit 'fables' in late Ming China / Sher-shiueh Li; title: The cultural politics of translating kunqu, the national heritage / Yeung Jessica; title: Cooperative translation models : rediscovering Ezra Pound's approach to classical Chinese poetry / Sylvia Ieong; title: Ideology and literary translation : a brief discussion on Liang Qi-chao's translation practice / Luo Xuanmin; 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 making A dictionary of translation technology / Sin-wai Chan; title: Translating alien sources from and into Chinese : what does the translator do, and why? / He Yanjian.