Culture in translation
Subtitle: reception of Chinese literature in comparative perspective
By: ed. by Kwok-kan Tam, Kelly Kar-yue Chan
Contributors: Culture in Translation: Reception of Chinese Literature in the World (2011 : Hong Kong, China)
Publisher: Open University of Hong Kong Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Kowloon, Hong Kong
Language: eng
Number of pages: 206
ISBN-13: 9789627707899
Subjects: Chinese literature; Congresses; Translations into English; Language and culture; Culture in literature
Other titles: Reception of Chinese literature in comparative perspective
Notes: "The essays are revised papers selected from a conference "Culture in Translation: Reception of Chinese Literature in the World held at the Open University of Hong Kong in January 2011"--Preface.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Preface; title: Introduction: Culture, reception and translation / Kwok-kan Tam, Kelly Kar-yue Chan; title: The writer as translator: on the creative aesthetics of Gao Xingjian / Mabel Lee; title: Lady precious stream, diaspora literature, and cultural interpretation / Da Zheng; title: Traditions, modernity, parataxis and the self: Chinese poetry and the anglophone Avant-Garde / Lucas Klein; title: L. A. Cranmert-Byng and the western reception of Tang poetry / Lan Jiang; title: Translating culture: (re)constructing regionalism in English translations of Taiwan's regional prose literature / Yun-fang Lo; title: A dilemma for the translator: bicultural elements in bilingual texts / Kwok-kan Tam; title: The role translation played in the Mei Lanfang US tour in 1930 / Teresa Wang; title: Wild orchid in a secluded valley: a positive image of Chinese womanhood in Lin Yutang's "A nun of Taishan" / Fang Lu; title: Between borrowing and retention: the translation of Zhu Shuzhen's poems / Kelly Kar-yue Chan; title: From Gogol to Lu Xun and after: politics, culture and reception / Garfield Chi-sum Lau; title: Metamorphoses for better reception: the Chinese translation of The brotherhood of the seven kings in Hong Kong / Bo Li; title: Love novels in translation: Joan Haste as an example of domestication / Qian Liu; title: Notes on contributors; title: Index.