The Making of Barbarians : : Chinese Literature and Multilingual Asia / / Haun Saussy.

A groundbreaking account of translation and identity in the Chinese literary tradition before 1850—with important ramifications for todayDebates on the canon, multiculturalism, and world literature often take Eurocentrism as the target of their critique. But literature is a universe with many center...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2022 English
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Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2022]
©2022
Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
Series:Translation/Transnation ; 49
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Physical Description:1 online resource (192 p.) :; 4 b/w illus.
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Introduction: Intrinsically Extrinsic
  • 1 The Nine Relays: Translation in China
  • 2 Can the Barbarians Sing?
  • 3 The Hanzi wenhua quan: Center, Periphery, and the Shaggy Borderlands
  • 4 The Formation of China: Asymmetries in the Writing of History
  • 5 Exiles and Emissaries amid Their New Neighbors: The View from the Edge of the World
  • Conclusion: Frames, Edges, Escape Codes
  • Acknowledgments
  • Notes
  • Index