6. Translation as Ethnography: Problems in American Translations of Contemporary Chinese Poetry

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Huang, Yunte. "6. Translation as Ethnography: Problems in American Translations of Contemporary Chinese Poetry". Transpacific Displacement: Ethnography, Translation, and Intertextual Travel in Twentieth-Century American Literature, Berkeley: University of California Press, 2002, pp. 164-182. https://doi.org/10.1525/9780520928145-009

Huang, Y. (2002). 6. Translation as Ethnography: Problems in American Translations of Contemporary Chinese Poetry. In Transpacific Displacement: Ethnography, Translation, and Intertextual Travel in Twentieth-Century American Literature (pp. 164-182). Berkeley: University of California Press. https://doi.org/10.1525/9780520928145-009

Huang, Y. 2002. 6. Translation as Ethnography: Problems in American Translations of Contemporary Chinese Poetry. Transpacific Displacement: Ethnography, Translation, and Intertextual Travel in Twentieth-Century American Literature. Berkeley: University of California Press, pp. 164-182. https://doi.org/10.1525/9780520928145-009

Huang, Yunte. "6. Translation as Ethnography: Problems in American Translations of Contemporary Chinese Poetry" In Transpacific Displacement: Ethnography, Translation, and Intertextual Travel in Twentieth-Century American Literature, 164-182. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2002. https://doi.org/10.1525/9780520928145-009

Huang Y. 6. Translation as Ethnography: Problems in American Translations of Contemporary Chinese Poetry. In: Transpacific Displacement: Ethnography, Translation, and Intertextual Travel in Twentieth-Century American Literature. Berkeley: University of California Press; 2002. p.164-182. https://doi.org/10.1525/9780520928145-009

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Frontmatter i
CONTENTS ix
Illustrations xi
Acknowledgments xiii
Introduction 1
1. Ethnographers-Out-There: Percival Lowell, Ernest Fenollosa, and Florence Ayscough 26
2. Ezra Pound: An Ideographer or Ethnographer? 60
3. The Intertextual Travel of Amy Lowell 93
4. The Multifarious Faces of the Chinese Language 113
5. Maxine Hong Kingston and the Making of an “American” Myth 138
6. Translation as Ethnography: Problems in American Translations of Contemporary Chinese Poetry 164
Conclusion 183
Bibliography 189
Index 203

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Frontmatter i
CONTENTS ix
Illustrations xi
Acknowledgments xiii
Introduction 1
1. Ethnographers-Out-There: Percival Lowell, Ernest Fenollosa, and Florence Ayscough 26
2. Ezra Pound: An Ideographer or Ethnographer? 60
3. The Intertextual Travel of Amy Lowell 93
4. The Multifarious Faces of the Chinese Language 113
5. Maxine Hong Kingston and the Making of an “American” Myth 138
6. Translation as Ethnography: Problems in American Translations of Contemporary Chinese Poetry 164
Conclusion 183
Bibliography 189
Index 203

6. Translation as Ethnography: Problems in American Translations of Contemporary Chinese Poetry

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