Experimental Chinese Literature

Tong King Lee, Ph.D. (2009), University of Queensland, is Assistant Professor of Translation at the University of Hong Kong. He is the author of Translating the Multilingual City (2013) as well as several articles on experimental poetics and translation studies.

• AcknowledgementsList of Tables and FiguresChapter 1 Central IssuesExperimental Literature and its Modes of MaterialityMultimodality and IntersemioticityTranslation and the TranslationalTechnologyChapter OutlineChapter 2 Machine Translation and Hsia Yü's Poetics of DeconstructionTranslation and DeconstructionDichotomies RevisitedPink Noise: Mode of WritingDeconstructing AuthorshipRomancing the Machine PoetTransparent Meanings: Multimodality and MaterialityThe Texts: Literary Meaning and its DiscontentsDisjuncture and DivergenceConcretising ImagesUngrammaticality: Fetishism with the WordProliferating Différance: Pink Noise in Multiple MT(Ir)reconciling Text and MachineThe Text-Machine as MonsterThe ‘Ish-ness’ of LanguageChapter 3 The Material Poetics of Chen Li: Translation and TechnologyThe Translingual Sign as Inscription TechnologyIntermediality: The Printed Text and its Digital ‘Translation’Interlinguality: Writing Through TranslationIntersemioticity: Creative TranspositionsEngendering a Material Poetics through Translation and TechnologyChapter 4 Visuality and Translation in Literary Art: Xu Bing's A Book from the Sky and A Book from the GroundThe Imagetext in Deconstructed Chinese Characters: A Book from the SkyIcon-Language in Deverbalised Communication: A Book from the GroundImagetext: Image-In-Text to Image-As-TextChapter 5 The Translational: Intersemioticity and TransculturalityCase ExamplesText GardenRead, ArtEvil/ExorcisedTranslation as Method in Literary ArtChapter 6 On Chineseness and the Trope of Translation in Experimental LiteratureBibliography

"A clear and widerangingexposition of these issues in the Chinese-language context, Lee's book is a welcomechange and addition to the more usual focus on the artistic practices of experimental writersand text-based artists in Europe and North America."-Adam Jaworski, The University of Hong Kong, in Journal of Oriental Studies, Vol. 50, Iss. 1.