Ecologies of Translation in East and South East Asia, 1600-1900

Published by Amsterdam University Press 2022

Ecologies of Translation in East and South East Asia, 1600-1900

Edited by: Li Guo , Patricia Sieber and Peter Kornicki

https://doi.org/10.1515/9789048554119

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About this book

This ground-breaking volume on early modern inter-Asian translation examines how translation from plain Chinese was situated at the nexus between, on the one hand, the traditional standard of biliteracy characteristic of literary practices in the Sinographic sphere, and on the other, practices of translational multilingualism (competence in multiple spoken languages to produce a fully localized target text). Translations from plain Chinese are shown to carve out new ecologies of translations that not only enrich our understanding of early modern translation practices across the Sinographic sphere, but also demonstrate that the transregional uses of a non-alphabetic graphic technology call for different models of translation theory.

Author / Editor information

Guo Li :

Li Guo teaches Chinese and Sinophone literature and culture, as well as Asian cultures at Utah State University. She is the author of Women's Tanci Fiction in Late Imperial and Early Twentieth-Century China (Purdue University Press, 2015), and Writing Gender in Early Modern Chinese Women's Tanci Fiction (Purdue University Press, 2021).Sieber Patricia :

Patricia Sieber is an associate professor of Chinese and director of the Translation and Interpreting Program at The Ohio State University. She is the author of Theaters of Desire: Authors, Readers, and the Reproduction of Early Chinese Song-Drama, 1300-2000, the lead editor of How To Read Chinese Drama: A Guided Anthology (Columbia University Press, 2022) and a co-editor of How To Read Chinese Drama in Chinese: The Language Companion (under advance agreement).Kornicki Peter :

Peter Kornicki is Emeritus Professor of Japanese, Robinson College, University of Cambridge. He earlier taught at the University of Tasmania and Kyoto University. His monographs include The Book in Japan (1998) and Languages, Scripts and Chinese Texts in East Asia (2018). He is a Fellow of the British Academy.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	1
Table of Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	5
List of Figures and Tables Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	6
Introduction. Scriptworlds, Vernacularization, and Shifting Translation Norms Peter Kornicki, Patricia Sieber and Li Guo Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	9
1 On Not Being Shallow. Examination Essays, Songbooks, and the Translational Nature of Mixed-Register Literature in Early Modern China Patricia Sieber Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	33
2 A Faithful Translation. Tsūzoku sangokushi, the First Japanese Translation of Sanguozhi yanyi Matthew Fraleigh Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	59
3 Romance of the Two Kingdoms. Okajima Kanzan’s Chinese Explication of ‘The Annals of Pacification’ (Taiheiki engi) William C. Hedberg Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	89
4 Speaking the Sinitic. Translation and ‘Chinese Language’ in Eighteenth-Century Japan Ye Yuan Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	109
5 ‘Body Borrowed, Soul Returned’ An Adaptation of a Chinese Buddhist Miracle Tale into a Vietnamese Traditional Theatrical Script Nguyễn Tô Lan Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	145
6 ‘Out of the Margins’ The Western Wing Glossarial Complex in Late Chosŏn and the Problem of the Literary Vernacular Ross King Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	175
7 Vernacular Eloquence in Fiction Glossaries of Late Chosŏn Korea Si Nae Park Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	223
8 Imagined Orality. Mun Hanmyŏng’s Late Nineteenth-Century Approach to Sinitic Literacy Xiaoqiao Ling and Young Kyun Oh Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	257
9 Linguistic Transformation and Cultural Reconstruction. Translations of Gorky’s ‘Kain and Artem’ in Japan and China Xiaolu Ma Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	293
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	317

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Language: English
Publisher: Amsterdam University Press
Audience: Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 326
Illustrations
- Illustrations: 13
- Coloured Illustrations: 7
Keywords: Translation; language ecologies; sinographic sphere

eBook

Published: June 9, 2022
ISBN: 9789048554119