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The Problem of Translation in Global Circulations
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Edited by:
Lydia H. Liu
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English
Published/Copyright:
1999
About this book
Theorizes the role of translation in the circulation of ideas and meanings in a global economy through a number of China-related case studies.
Author / Editor information
Lydia H. Liu is Helmut F. Stern Professor of Chinese Studies and Professor of Comparative Literature at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. She is the author of Translingual Practice: Literature, National Culture, and Translated Modernity—China, 1900–1937.
Reviews
“This impressive volume expands the metaphor of translation to encompass a broad spread of transcultural negotiations, thereby opening new possibilities for approaching the language and practices of East Asian modernities. The volume presents exemplary models for demonstrating the historicity of how concepts travel and become caught up within localized sign systems.”—Ann Anagnost, author of National Past-Times: Narrative, Representation, and Power in Modern China
“This volume brilliantly translates ‘translation’ by theorizing it and demonstrating the contingency, historicity and political inflections of the practices that have constituted it. Specific attention to a series of examples from China and the diverse encounters with European knowledges show that the Universal is always particular.”—Paul Rabinow, University of California, Berkeley
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Frontmatter
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CONTENTS
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Introduction
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The Question of Meaning-Value in the Political Economy of the Sign
13 - Part I Early Encounters: The Question of (In)commensurability
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Translating the Untranslatable: From Copula to IncommensurableWorlds
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Demystifying Qi: The Politics of Cultural Translation and Interpretation in the Early Jesuit Mission to China
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Always Multiple Translation, Or, How the Chinese Language Lost Its Grammar
107 - Part II Colonial Circulations: From International Law to the Global Market
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Legislating the Universal: The Circulation of International Law in the Nineteenth Century
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Japan’s Engagement with International Terms
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Looting Beijing: 1860, 1900
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The Gramophone in China
214 - Part III Science, Medicine, and Cultural Pathologies
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Handmaids to the Gospel: Lam Qua’s Medical Portraiture
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Translating Homosexuality: The Discourse of Tongxing’ai in Republican China (1912–1949)
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Translating Psychiatry and Mental Health in Twentieth-Century China
305 - Part IV Language and the Production of Universal Knowledge
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The Bathos of a Universalism: I. A. Richards and His Basic English
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Chinese ‘‘Revolution’’ in the Syntax of World Revolution
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The Question of Culture in Global English-Language Teaching: A Postcolonial Perspectiv
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Glossary
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Bibliography
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Index
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Contributors
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January 19, 2000
eBook ISBN:
9780822381129
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464
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