Translation Studies and China: Literature, Cinema, and Visual Arts

ISBN-13: 9781032563978 / Angielski

Haiping Yan; Haina Jin; Paul Gladston

Opis

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.

Recenzje

"The essays comprising Translation Studies and China are path-breaking in their scope—from film dubbing and back translation, to theatre, exhibition, visual art and children's books, then to poetry and fiction. And for their dialectical subtlety, which simultaneously focuses on translation as repetition of values, to translation as the domination of one set of values over others, and finally to the free possibilities symmetrical between languages that translation can prompt. The book is exemplary in its focus on the uniqueness of individual translation instances rather than on the application of theory, while in some cases generating theory. In the book's emphasis on the global situatedness of China within the forest of languages, it is nothing if not cosmopolitan."

Daniel Herwitz, Fredric Huetwell Professor, Philosophy, Comparative Literature and History of Art, University of Michigan, USA

Spis treści

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

O autorze

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.