The Question of Meaning-Value in the Political Economy of the Sign

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS v
3. Introduction 1
4. The Question of Meaning-Value in the Political Economy of the Sign 13
5. Part I Early Encounters: The Question of (In)commensurability
6. Translating the Untranslatable: From Copula to IncommensurableWorlds 45
7. Demystifying Qi: The Politics of Cultural Translation and Interpretation in the Early Jesuit Mission to China 74
8. Always Multiple Translation, Or, How the Chinese Language Lost Its Grammar 107
9. Part II Colonial Circulations: From International Law to the Global Market
10. Legislating the Universal: The Circulation of International Law in the Nineteenth Century 127
11. Japan’s Engagement with International Terms 165
12. Looting Beijing: 1860, 1900 192
13. The Gramophone in China 214
14. Part III Science, Medicine, and Cultural Pathologies
15. Handmaids to the Gospel: Lam Qua’s Medical Portraiture 239
16. Translating Homosexuality: The Discourse of Tongxing’ai in Republican China (1912–1949) 276
17. Translating Psychiatry and Mental Health in Twentieth-Century China 305
18. Part IV Language and the Production of Universal Knowledge
19. The Bathos of a Universalism: I. A. Richards and His Basic English 331
20. Chinese ‘‘Revolution’’ in the Syntax of World Revolution 355
21. The Question of Culture in Global English-Language Teaching: A Postcolonial Perspectiv 375
22. Glossary 399
23. Bibliography 411
24. Index 445
25. Contributors 457