Modern China and the West : : translation and cultural mediation / / edited by Peng Hsiao-yen and Isabelle Rabut.

In Modern China and the West: Translation and Cultural Mediation , the authors investigate the significant role translation plays in the act of cultural mediation. They pay attention to transnational organizations that bring about cross-cultural interactions as well as regulating authorities, in the...

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Place / Publishing House:Leiden, Netherlands : : Brill,, 2014.
©2014
Year of Publication:2014
Edition:1st ed.
Language:English
Series:East Asian Comparative Literature and Culture 2.
Physical Description:1 online resource (373 p.)
Notes:Includes index.
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Table of Contents:
  • Preliminary Material
  • Introduction / Hsiao-yen Peng and Isabelle Rabut
  • 1 China-Europe: Transcontinental “Intellectual Cooperation” during the Interwar Period / Françoise Kreissler
  • 2 Ba Jin as Translator / Angel Pino
  • 3 Eileen Chang as a Chinese Translator of American Literature / Te-hsing Shan
  • 4 The Birth of a Profession: Translators and Translation in Modern China / Nicolai Volland
  • 5 Force of Psyche: Electricity or Void? Re-examination of the Hermeneutics of the Force of Psyche in Late Qing China / Joyce C.H. Liu
  • 6 Translating Liberalism into China in the Early Twentieth Century: The Case of Yan Fu / Max K.W. Huang
  • 7 Chinese Romanticism: The Acculturation of a Western Notion / Isabelle Rabut
  • 8 Mapping a “New” Dramatic Canon: Rewriting the Legacy of Hong Shen / Xiaomei Chen
  • 9 The Shanghai School: Westernised Urbanity and Scriptural Mimesis / Yinde Zhang
  • 10 A Traveling Text: Souvenirs entomologiques, Japanese Anarchism, and Shanghai Neo-Sensationism / Hsiao-yen Peng
  • 11 From Poetic Revolution to Nation-(Re)building: Vicissitudes of Modernity in Modern Chinese Poetry / Sebastian Hsien-hao Liao
  • 12 Ghostly China: Amy Tan’s Narrative of Transnational Haunting in The Hundred Secret Senses, The Bonesetter’s Daughter, and Saving Fish from Drowning / Pin-chia Feng
  • Index.