2 A Faithful Translation. Tsūzoku sangokushi, the First Japanese Translation of Sanguozhi yanyi

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter 1
2. Table of Contents 5
3. List of Figures and Tables 6
4. Introduction. Scriptworlds, Vernacularization, and Shifting Translation Norms 9
5. 1 On Not Being Shallow. Examination Essays, Songbooks, and the Translational Nature of Mixed-Register Literature in Early Modern China 33
6. 2 A Faithful Translation. Tsūzoku sangokushi, the First Japanese Translation of Sanguozhi yanyi 59
7. 3 Romance of the Two Kingdoms. Okajima Kanzan’s Chinese Explication of ‘The Annals of Pacification’ (Taiheiki engi) 89
8. 4 Speaking the Sinitic. Translation and ‘Chinese Language’ in Eighteenth-Century Japan 109
9. 5 ‘Body Borrowed, Soul Returned’ An Adaptation of a Chinese Buddhist Miracle Tale into a Vietnamese Traditional Theatrical Script 145
10. 6 ‘Out of the Margins’ The Western Wing Glossarial Complex in Late Chosŏn and the Problem of the Literary Vernacular 175
11. 7 Vernacular Eloquence in Fiction Glossaries of Late Chosŏn Korea 223
12. 8 Imagined Orality. Mun Hanmyŏng’s Late Nineteenth-Century Approach to Sinitic Literacy 257
13. 9 Linguistic Transformation and Cultural Reconstruction. Translations of Gorky’s ‘Kain and Artem’ in Japan and China 293
14. Index 317