Lin Shu, Inc. - Translation and the Making of Modern Chinese Culture

Zusatztext Readers will be impressed by the books original viewpoints and it's meticulous ex-amination of many original texts. Hill's serious scholarship and multidimensional perspective set an example for similar translator-oriented research. Lin Shu Inc, will be the standard reference for scholars and students interested in the fascinating figure and this unique phenomenon for a very long time to come. s Duoxiu Qian, Department of Translation and Interpretation, School for Foreign Languages, Beihang Universtiy. Informationen zum Autor Michael Gibbs Hill is Associate Professor of Chinese and Comparative Literature, University of South Carolina, Department of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures. Klappentext Lin Shu, Inc. explores the dynamic interactions between literary translation, commercial publishing, and the politics of "traditional" Chinese culture in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. It breaks new ground as the first full-length study in any Western language on the career and works of Lin Shu and his many collaborators in the publishing, academic, and business worlds. Integrating literary scholarship, translation studies, and print history, this book provides new insights into a controversial figure in world literature and his place in the profound transformations in authorship and cultural production in modern China. Zusammenfassung Lin Shu, Inc. explores the dynamic interactions between literary translation, commercial publishing, and the politics of "traditional" Chinese culture in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, as it traces how Lin Shu and a team of translators brought classic Western novels by Melville, Stowe, Dickens, and others to China. Inhaltsverzeichnis Chapter 1 Introduction Chapter 2 Broken Tools Chapter 3 The Name is Changed, but the Tale is Told of You Chapter 4 Double Exposure Chapter 5 Looking Backward? Chapter 6 The National Classicist Chapter 7 Becoming Wang Jingxuan Chapter 8 Conclusion: Pure and Chaste Writing Index ...

Product details

• Authors: Associate Professor of Chinese and Comparati Hill, Michael Gibbs Hill, Michael Gibbs (Associate Professor of Chines Hill, Hill Michael Gibbs
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 10.03.2016
• EAN: 9780190278281
• ISBN: 978-0-19-027828-1
• No. of pages: 310
• Series: Global Asias
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Translating & Interpreting, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Industries / Media & Communications, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 19th Century, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 20th Century, Translation & interpretation, Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, Publishing industry & book trade, Publishing and book trade, Translation and language interpretation