Publication

2014 - BRILL

Language

English

Word Count

93,500 words, Guess

Page Count

374 pages

Identifiers

  • ISBN-139789004270220
  • ISBN-109004270221
  • Library of Congress Control Number2014000465
  • OCLC Control Number871062839
  • Better World Books9789004270220
and 1 more

Classifications

  • LCCP306.8.C6 M63 2012

Description

In Modern China and the West: Translation and Cultural Mediation the authors investigate the significant role translation plays in the act of cultural mediation. They pay attention to transnational organizations that bring about cross-cultural interactions as well as regulating authorities, in the form of both nation-states and ideologies, which dictate what, and even how, to translate. Under such circumstances, is there room for individual translators or mediators to exercise their free will? To what extent are they allowed to do so? The authors see translation as a "shaping force." While intending to shape, or reshape, certain concepts through the translating act, translators and cultural actors need to negotiate among multifarious institutional powers that coexist, including traditional and foreign.

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  • Modern China and the West: Translation and Cultural MediationBRILL2014-01-01

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