Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Editor’s Preface vii
4. Notes on Contributors xiv
5. Translation as an agent for change
6. Enhancing Cultural Changes by Means of Fictitious Translations 3
7. Translation and Cultural Transformation 19
8. Cultural Borderlands in China's translation history 43
9. Cultural perception and translation
10. Translating China to the American South 67
11. Translating the Concept of ‘Identity’ 91
12. Translation and National Cultures 111
13. The Japanese experience
14. The Reconceptualization of Translation from Chinese in 18th Century Japan 121
15. Translationese in Japan 147
16. The Selection of Texts for Translation in Postwar Japan — An Examination of One Aspect of Polysystem Theory 161
17. Case studies from China
18. Translation in Transition 177
19. On Annotation in Translation 183
20. Index 191