9780804725354-0804725357-Translingual Practice: Literature, National Culture, and Translated Modernity-China, 1900-1937

Translingual Practice: Literature, National Culture, and Translated Modernity-China, 1900-1937

ISBN-13: 9780804725354
ISBN-10: 0804725357
Edition: 1
Author: Lydia Liu
Publication date: 1995
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Format: Paperback 504 pages
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ISBN-13: 9780804725354
ISBN-10: 0804725357
Edition: 1
Author: Lydia Liu
Publication date: 1995
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Format: Paperback 504 pages

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Translingual Practice: Literature, National Culture, and Translated Modernity-China, 1900-1937 (ISBN-13: 9780804725354 and ISBN-10: 0804725357), written by authors Lydia Liu, was published by Stanford University Press in 1995. With an overall rating of 3.5 stars, it's a notable title among other books. You can easily purchase or rent Translingual Practice: Literature, National Culture, and Translated Modernity-China, 1900-1937 (Paperback, Used) from BooksRun, along with many other new and used books and textbooks. And, if you're looking to sell your copy, our current buyback offer is $3.69.

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Are languages incommensurate? If so, how do people establish and maintain hypothetical equivalences between words and their meanings? What does it mean to translate one culture into the language of another on the basis of commonly conceived equivalences? This study―bridging contemporary theory, Chinese history, comparative literature, and culture studies―analyzes the historical interactions among China, Japan, and the West in terms of "translingual practice." By this term, the author refers to the process by which new words, meanings, discourses, and modes of representation arose, circulated, and acquired legitimacy in early modern China as it contacted/collided with European/Japanese languages and literatures. In reexamining the rise of modern Chinese literature in this context, the book asks three central questions: How did "modernity" and "the West" become legitimized in May fourth literary discourse? What happened to native agency in this complex process of legitimation? How did the Chinese national culture imagine and interpret its own moment of unfolding?

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