Translating Feminism in China - Gender, Sexuality and Censorship

This book investigates, from the perspective of gender and feminism, how TSS and TVM have been translated and received in China, with special attention to the ways the translators deal with the descriptions of the female body and female sexuality.

List of contents

1.Introduction 2.Feminist Translation: Practice, Theory and Studies 3.Contextualising the Chinese Translations of The Second Sex and The Vagina Monologues 4.Translating the Female Body and Female Sexuality in The Second Sex 5.Translating the Female Body and Female Sexuality in The Vagina Monologues 6.Translating Lesbianism in The Second Sex and The Vagina Monologues 7.Censorship, Sexuality and Translation 8.Conclusion: Gender, Feminism and Translation Studies

About the author

Zhongli Yu is Assistant Professor of Translation Studies at the University of Nottingham Ningbo China (UNNC).

Summary

This book investigates, from the perspective of gender and feminism, how TSS and TVM have been translated and received in China, with special attention to the ways the translators deal with the descriptions of the female body and female sexuality.

Additional text

Altogether, Translating Feminism in China: Gender, sexuality and censorship offers a vast panorama of the position of translation, sexuality and feminism in China today, thus opening up a much-needed debate on these topics. And, more importantly perhaps, it places Chinese growing research alongside the research carried out in other places of the world, thus filling a rather large gap in translation (and sexuality) studies. Translating sexuality (women’s body, homosexuality, lesbianism) is a clearly political act, with important rhetorical and ideological implications, which always poses social, historical and ethical dilemmas to translators and readers alike.-- José Santaemilia, Associate Professor of English Language and Linguistics, University of Valencia

Product details

• Authors: Yu, Zhongli Yu, Zhongli (University of Nottingham Ningbo China Yu, Zhongli (University of Nottingham Ningbo China) Yu, Yu Zhongli
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.11.2018
• EAN: 9780367133795
• ISBN: 978-0-367-13379-5
• No. of pages: 202
• Series: Routledge Advances in Translation and Interpreting Studies
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Other languages / Other literatures; Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general); Cultural Studies, Asia, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / General, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Translating & Interpreting, Translation & interpretation, Regional Studies, Literature: history & criticism, Regional / International studies, Literature: history and criticism, Translation and interpretation