Translation/re-Creation: Southwest Chinese Naxi Manuscripts in the West

ISBN-13: 9781032136240 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 210 str.

Duncan Poupard

Opis

This book is a historical study of European-language translations of Naxi ritual manuscripts, the ritual literature of a small ethnic group living in southwest China’s Yunnan Province.

Spis treści

1 Translating (and re-creating) worlds  2 The manuscript hunters  3 The missionary translations  4 From Rock to Pound (and beyond)

O autorze

Duncan Poupard teaches in the Department of Translation at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. His work focuses on the translation of Chinese ethnic minority literature, specifically of the Naxi minority. He has worked with museums and libraries around the world on the cataloguing of Naxi manuscripts.