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Focusing on transculturality, this edited volume explores how the role of translation and the idea of (un)translatability in the transformative complementation of different civilizations facilitates the transcultural connection between Chinese and other cultures in the modern era.
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1. Introduction 2. Mutual Transwritings: China in the World 3. Changes in the Contemporary Translation of Irish literature: A Case study of the Translation of James Joyce 4. Chinese Children's Literature in Translation: A case study of reader responses in the UK 5. The Politics of Translation: the Rockefeller Foundation and the China Translation Project in the Early Cold War (1947-1952) 6. Comparable Diversities: Translating Modern Chinese Literature with a Transcultural Approach 7. The Beginning of the Importation of New Literature from Exotic Countries Into China: Zhou Zuoren and Yuwai xiaoshuoji 8. Back Translation in Film Restoration A Case Study of The Romance of the Western Chamber (1927) 9. The visualized translation of classical Chinese poetry: A case study of the BBC documentary Du Fu: China's Greatest Poet 10. An exploration of Cdrama distribution networks in Spanish-speaking countries from the viewpoint of a Chinese-Spanish fansub 11. Paradigm Shift of Cinematic Translations in China in the Digital Age 12. Translating Chinese Culture and History in Museum Exhibitions: Translation as Cultural Interpretation 13. Translating Theatre. Lin Zhaohua's "Foreign Classics" Productions with a Special Focus on Dürrenmatt's Romulus the Great 14. Dis-/Continuing Traditions: Polylogic Translation, Chinese Contemporary Art and the Traces of Confucian-literati Culture
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Haiping Yan is the Tsinghua Academy Professor of the Class of World Literatures and Cultures and the Founding Dean of the Institute for World Literatures and Cultures, Tsinghua University, China, as well as the Director of the Executive Council and Secretary General of the China-UK Alliance for the Humanities in Higher Education (UKCHA). Her research focuses on comparative studies of modern literatures, intellectual history of the 19th and 20th centuries, and transcultural theories with numerous publications in transnational feminism, transcultural modernism, and critical cosmopolitanism.
Haina Jin is a professor of translation, cinematic, and transcultural studies at the Communication University of China. She is an invited member of UKCHA, and the series editor of Routledge Series in Chinese Cinema. Her research interests include film translation, translation history, and film history.
Paul Gladston is the inaugural Judith Neilson Chair Professor of Contemporary Art at the University of New South Wales, Sydney and a distinguished affiliate member of the UKCHA. He has written extensively on contemporary art and culture with respect to the concerns of critical/cultural theory.
