Tokens of Exchange: The Problem of Translation in Global Circulations

Theorizes the role of translation in the circulation of ideas and meanings in a global economy through a number of China-related case studies

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1. Verfasser: Liu, Lydia He 1957- (VerfasserIn)
Weitere Verfasser: Fish, Stanley Eugene 1938- (MitwirkendeR), Jameson, Fredric 1934-2024 (MitwirkendeR)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Durham Duke University Press 1999
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Zusammenfassung:Theorizes the role of translation in the circulation of ideas and meanings in a global economy through a number of China-related case studies
Intro -- Contents -- Introduction / Lydia H. Liu -- The Question of Meaning-Value in the Political Economy of the Sign / Lydia H. Liu -- I. Early Encounters: The Question of (In)commensurability -- Translating the Untranslatable: From Copula Incommensurable Worlds / Roger Hart -- Demystifying Qi: The Politics of Cultural Translation and Interpretation in the Early Jesuit Mission to China / Qiong Zhang, -- Always Multiple Translation, Or, How the Chinese Language Lost Its Grammar / Haun Saussy -- II. Colonial Circulations: From International Law to the Global Market -- Legislating the Universal: The Circulation of International Law in the Nineteenth Century / Lydia H. Liu -- Japan's Engagement with International Terms / Alexis Dudden -- Looting Beijing: 1860, 1900 / James Hevia -- The Gramophone in China / Andrew F. Jones -- III. Science, Medicine, and Cultural Pathologies -- Handmaids to the Gospel: Lam Qua's Medical Portraiture / Larissa N. Heinrich -- Translating Homosexuality: The Discourse of Tongxing'ai in Republican China (1912-1949) / Tze-lan Deborah Sang -- Translating Psychiatry and Mental Health in Twentieth-Century China / Nancy N. Chen -- IV. Language and the Production of Universal Knowledge -- The Bathos of a Universalism: I. A. Richards and His Basic English / Q.S. Tong -- Chinese ''Revolution'' in the Syntax of World Revolution / Jianhua Chen -- The Question of Culture in Global English-Language Teaching: A Postcolonial Perspective / Wan Shun Eva Lam -- Glossary -- Bibliography -- Index -- Contributors
Beschreibung:1 online resource (465 pages)
ISBN:9780822381129

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