Tokens of Exchange - The Problem of Translation in Global Circulations

"This volume brilliantly translates 'translation' by theorizing it and demonstrating the contingency, historicity and political inflections of the practices that have constituted it. Specific attention to a series of examples from China and the diverse encounters with European knowledges show that the Universal is always particular."--Paul Rabinow, University of California, Berkeley

Sommario

Introduction/ Lydia H. Liu 1

The Question of Meaning-Value in the Political Economy of the Sign 13

Part I. Early Encounters: The Question of (In)commensurability 45

Part II. Colonial Circulations: From International Law to the Global Market 127

Part III. Science, Medicine, and Cultural Pathologies 239

Part IV. Language and the Production of Universal Knowledge 331

Glossary 399

Bibliography 411

Index 445

Contributors 457

Info autore

Lydia H. Liu is Helmut F. Stern Professor of Chinese Studies and Professor of Comparative Literature at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. She is the author of Translingual Practice: Literature, National Culture, and Translated Modernity—China, 1900–1937.

Riassunto

Approaching translation as a symbolic or material exchange among peoples and civilisations - and not as a purely linguistic or literary matter, this book includes essays that focuses on China and its interactions with the West to historicise an economy of translation.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Liu
• Con la collaborazione di: Lydia H Liu (Editore), Lydia H. Liu (Editore), Lydia H. Liu (Editore)
• Editore: Duke University Press
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pubblicazione: 19.01.2000
• EAN: 9780822324010
• ISBN: 978-0-8223-2401-0
• Pagine: 464
• Peso: 1002 g
• Illustrazioni: 22 b&w photographs
• Serie: Post-Contemporary Interventions; Post-Contemporary Intervention; Post-Contemporary Interventions; Post-Contemporary Intervention
• Categorie: Scienze sociali, diritto, economia > Scienze politiche > Scienze politiche e cittadinanza attiva; Scienze umane, arte, musica > Scienze linguistiche e letterarie > Linguistica generale e comparata