Translating China

Luo Xuanmin is Professor at the Department of Foreign Languages and Literature, and Director of the Center for Translation and Interdisciplinary Studies, Tsinghua University, Beijing. His publications include books, translations and articles in various presses and journals at home and abroad. He is the founding editor of the journal Foreign Languages and Translation, chief editor of Abstracts of Chinese Translation Studies, and is on the advisory/ editorial board for several journals. He was twice Visiting Fellow at Yale’s Comparative Literature Department (1995-1995, 2001) and Fulbright Research Scholar at UCLA (2006-2007). He is now Vice President of the Chinese Association of Comparative Studies in English and Chinese (CACSSEC), and Deputy Secretary-General of the Translation Association of China (TAC).He Yuanjian is Professor at the Department of Translation, the Chinese University of Hong Kong. He is author and co-author of three books on Chinese generative grammar (1996, 2001, 2002) and author and co-author of more than 40 research papers published on translation studies, language typology, and Chinese linguistics

• 1. Introduction - Xuanmin Luo & Yuanjian He2. Chinese Cultural Identity and Translation: A Historical Perspective - Xia Li3. Chinese Translation of Buddhist Terminology: Language and Culture - Chi Yu Chu4. Transformer Sinicized and the Making of Chinese Buddhist Parlance - Francis K. H. So5. The Art of Misreading: The Jesuit Use of European “Fables” in Late Ming China - Sher-shiueh Li6. The Politics of Translating Kunqu, the National Heritage - Jessica Yeung7. Cooperative Translation Models: Rediscovering Ezra Pound’s Approach to Classical Chinese Poetry - Sylvia S. L. Ieong8. Ideology and Literary Translation: On Liang Qi-Chao’s Translation Practice - Xuanmin Luo9. Translating Modernity Towards Translating China - Shaobo Xie10. “Authenticity” and Foreignizing Translation - Yifeng Sun11. Representation, Intervention and Mediation: A Translation Anthologist’s Reflections on the Complexities of Translating China - Martha P. Y. Cheung12. Translating for the Future: Some Reflections on Compiling A Dictionary of Translation Technology - Sin-wai Chan13. Transplanting Chinese Political and Ideological Discourse - Yuanjian He

Applying concepts current in Western translation studies, these erudite essays by leading Chinese scholars provide important insights into the history and present-day practice of translation in China.