Translation As Citation - Zhuangzi Inside Out

The book looks at translation from many angles: it explores how translations change the languages in which they occur, how works introduced from other languages become part of the consciousness of native speakers, what strategies translators must use to secure acceptance for foreign works, and the history of translation in China.

List of contents

• Introduction: Translation Inside Out


• 1: Norns and Norms


• 2: Death and Translation


• 3: Matteo Ricci the Daoist


• 4: The First Age of Translation


• 5: The Extravagant Zhuangzi

About the author

Haun Saussy is University Professor at the University of Chicago, a former Guggenheim Fellow and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. His books and articles mainly concern literature, translation, poetics and hermeneutics across a broad comparative spectrum. He has translated the poetry of Jean Métellus and the plays of Tino Caspanello as well as authors from dynastic and contemporary China. Among his current projects is an international history of East Asian literatures from 3000 BCE to the present.

Summary

The book looks at translation from many angles: it explores how translations change the languages in which they occur, how works introduced from other languages become part of the consciousness of native speakers, what strategies translators must use to secure acceptance for foreign works, and the history of translation in China.

Additional text

This original, informative, and erudite work is unequivocally a significant contribution to the expanding field of Translation Studies ... this landmark publication is truly inspiring and worthy of perusal by scholars of both Translation Studies and Daoist Studies.

Product details

• Authors: Haun Saussy, Haun (University Professor Saussy, Saussy Haun
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.11.2017
• EAN: 9780198812531
• ISBN: 978-0-19-881253-1
• No. of pages: 164
• Series: Global Asias; Global Asias
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Other languages / Other literatures; LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Translating & Interpreting, LITERARY CRITICISM / Asian / Chinese, Chinese, Translation & interpretation, Literary studies: general, Asian History, Ancient, classical and medieval texts, Translation and interpretation, FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY / Southeast Asian Languages