History Retold : : Premodern Chinese Texts in Western Translation / / Leo Tak-hung Chan and Zong-qi Cai.
This collected volume studies the history of Western translation of premodern Chinese texts from the seventeenth to the twentieth century. A range of case-studies show how translation served to disseminate key texts, enabling them to travel in time and space, and cross linguistic and cultural barrie...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Leiden, Netherlands : : Koninklijke Brill nv NV,, [2022] ©2022 |
| Year of Publication: | 2022 |
| Edition: | First edition. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Chinese Texts in the World ;
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (317 pages) |
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Table of Contents:
- Intro
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Notes on Contributors
- Chapter 1. Introduction: Translation Histories, Micro and Macro (Chan and Cai)
- Part 1. Texts in History
- Chapter 2. The "Double Effect" of Translation in Jean-Pierre Abel-Rémusat's Iu-Kiao-Li (Youd)
- Chapter 3. Peritextual Performance: Théodore Pavie's Histoire des Trois Royaumes (Bramao-Ramos)
- Chapter 4. From Scripture to Literature: Translations of the Shijing by James Legge and Arthur Waley (Wu)
- Part 2. Untold Microhistories
- Chapter 5. Sinological Positioning: The Giles-Waley Debate and the Inception of Arthur Waley's Chinese Translations, 1917-1922 (Lin)
- Chapter 6. Monkey's Peregrinations in the West: An Archival Study of Publishers' Reception of Arthur Waley's Translation of the Xiyouji (Qi)
- Chapter 7. The Making of a Book of Wisdom: Hermann Keyserling and Richard Wilhelm's I Ging (Hon)
- Part 3. Toward the Macrohistorical
- Chapter 8. The Genesis of Dao Knowledge at the Beginning of Orientalism (Wei)
- Chapter 9. Dreams and Plums of World Literature: The Honglou meng and Jin Ping Mei in English (1827-1939) (Schonebaum)
- Coda: Histoire Croisée and the Early European Translators: Missionaries, Scholars, Aesthetes (Chan)
- Index of Individuals and Institutions
- Index of Texts Cited
- Index of Subjects.