Translating China for Western Readers

Reflective, Critical, and Practical Essays

Inbunden, Engelska, 2015

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Explores the challenges of translating Chinese works for Western readers, particularly premodern texts.This book explores the challenges of translating Chinese works, particularly premodern ones, for a contemporary Western readership. Reacting against the "cultural turn" in translation studies, contributors return to the origin of translation studies: translation practice. By returning to the time-honored basics of linguistics and hermeneutics, the book inquires into translation practice from the perspective of reading and reading theory. Essays in the first section of the work discuss the nature, function, rationale, criteria, and historical and conceptual values of translation. The second section focuses on the art and craft of translation, offering practical techniques and tips. Finally, the third section conducts critical assessments of translation policy and practice as well as formal and aesthetic issues. Throughout, contributors explore how a translation from the Chinese can read like a text in the Western reader's own language.

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Utgivningsdatum2015-01-01
Mått152 x 229 x 28 mm
Vikt680 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieSUNY series in Chinese Philosophy and Culture
Antal sidor337
FörlagState University of New York Press
ISBN9781438455112

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Ming Dong Gu is Professor of Chinese and Comparative Literature at the University of Texas at Dallas. He is the author of Chinese Theories of Fiction: A Non-Western Narrative System, also published by SUNY Press. Rainer Schulte is Professor of Comparative Literature and Director of the Center for Translation Studies at the University of Texas at Dallas. He is the author of Geography of Translation and Interpretation: Traveling Between Languages.

Introduction: Translating China for Western Readers in the Context of GlobalizationMing Dong GuPart I. Reflections on Conceptual Issues of Translation 1. Hermeneutic Principles of Understanding as the Logical Foundation of TranslationChung-ying Cheng2. Does the Metaphor Translate?Martin Svensson Ekström3. Translating Chinese Literature: Decanonization and RecanonizationWang Ning4. Readerly Translation and Writerly Translation: For a Theory of Translation That Returns to Its RootsMing Dong GuPart II. The Art and Craft of Translation 5. Translating Texts in Chinese History and PhilosophyMichael Nylan6. Translating Medieval Chinese Panegryic PoetryFusheng Wu7. Real-m-ization and Eventualization: A Phenomenological Approach to Poetic TranslationLiu Huawen8. Internet and Electronic Resources for Translation of Premodern Chinese Texts and How to Use ThemRichard John LynnPart III. Critical Assessment of Translation Practice 9. Translators in Brackets, or, Rambling Thoughts on Translation WorkWolfgang Kubin10. Translating the Tang Poets: A Personal View by a Western Poet and ReaderFrederick Turner11. The Three Paradoxes of Literary Translation: On Translating Chinese Poetry for FormTony Barnstone12. Aesthetic Fidelity versus Linguistic Fidelity: A Reassessment of Chinese Translations of Ezra Pound and Amy LowellYuehong ChenAfterword: Reflections on Reading the Collected EssaysDennis M. KatzA Reference List of Further ReadingsDaisy Qin GuoContributorsIndex

"…a fascinating compendium of insights and anecdotes into the challenges of translating early China. … a much-needed contribution to a vital task that Anglophone philosophy is only just beginning to confront systematically—bringing more work by Chinese thinkers to an English language audience. The theoretical and practical difficulties inherent in such a challenge deserve wider debate, and this volume commendably serves that end." — Dao