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“xuanmin luo”

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  • Translation and Chinese Modernity

    by Luo Xuanmin ...
    Inextricably intertwined, translation has played an irreplaceable role in constructing Chinese modernity. is is first reflected in its contribution to reforming the old and establishing the new in early twentieth-century China, especially in the linguistic literary and social changes spearheaded by Yan Fu, Liang Qichao and Lu Xun. As an educational act, translation carries on the cultural heritage ... Read more

    $115.99 CAD

  • Translating China

    by XUANMIN, Luo, YUANJIAN, He ...
    The book is a collection of essays on translating various types of text (literary, religious, political, etc.) into and from Chinese. The focus is on how such translations have been produced and propagated from ancient to modern times, and their sociocultural impact on the evolution of Chinese history and Chinese translatology. ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD

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  • Calligraphy and Power in Contemporary Chinese Society

    by Yuehping Yen ...
    Series series Anthropology of Asia
    This unusual and interesting book is a fascinating account of the world of Chinese writing. It examines Chinese space and the political and social use of writing as propaganda, a publicity booster and as a ladder for social climbing. ... Read more

    $117.99 CAD

  • An Anatomy of Chinese

    Rhythm, Metaphor, Politics

    by Perry Link ...
    During the Cultural Revolution, Mao exhorted the Chinese people to “smash the four olds”: old customs, old culture, old habits, and old ideas. Yet when the Red Guards in Tiananmen Square chanted “We want to see Chairman Mao,” they unknowingly used a classical rhythm that dates back to the Han period and is the very embodiment of the four olds. An Anatomy of Chinese reveals how rhythms, conceptual ... Read more

    $59.99 CAD

  • Borders of Chinese Civilization

    Geography and History at Empire's End

    by Rey Chow, Harry Harootunian, Masao Miyoshi, Douglas Howland ...
    Series series Asia-Pacific: Culture, Politics, and Society
    D. R. Howland explores China’s representations of Japan in the changing world of the late nineteenth century and, in so doing, examines the cultural and social borders between the two neighbors. Looking at Chinese accounts of Japan written during the 1870s and 1880s, he undertakes an unprecedented analysis of the main genres the Chinese used to portray Japan—the travel diary, poetry, and the ... Read more

    $33.99 CAD

  • Chinese History and Culture

    Seventeenth Century Through Twentieth Century

    by Ying-shih Yü ...
    Series series Masters of Chinese Studies
    The recipient of the Kluge Prize for lifetime achievement in the humanities and the Tang Prize for "revolutionary research" in Sinology, Ying-shih Yü is a premier scholar of Chinese studies. Chinese History and Culture volumes 1 and 2 bring his extraordinary oeuvre to English-speaking readers. Spanning two thousand years of social, intellectual, and political change, the essays in these volumes ... Read more

    $84.99 CAD

  • Translation, Globalisation and Localisation

    by Wang NING and Sun YIFENG ...
    The global/local distinction has changed significantly, and the topic has been heatedly debated in literary and cultural as well as translation scholarship. In this age of globalisation, the traditional definition of translation has been altered. In the present anthology, translation is viewed as a cultural and political practice, and accordingly translation studies is based on a heightened ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

  • The Pushing-Hands of Translation and its Theory

    In memoriam Martha Cheung, 1953-2013

    Edited by Douglas Robinson ...
    Series series Routledge Advances in Translation and Interpreting Studies
    This book presents an East-West dialogue of leading translation scholars responding to and developing Martha Cheung’s "pushing-hands" method of translation studies. Pushing-hands was an idea Martha began exploring in the last four years of her life, and only had time to publish at article length in 2012. The concept of pushing-hands suggests a promising line of inquiry into the problem of conflict ... Read more

    $94.99 CAD

  • The Culture of Language in Ming China

    Sound, Script, and the Redefinition of Boundaries of Knowledge

    by Nathan Vedal ...
    Winner, 2023 Morris D. Forkosch Prize, Journal of the History of IdeasThe scholarly culture of Ming dynasty China (1368–1644) is often seen as prioritizing philosophy over concrete textual study. Nathan Vedal uncovers the preoccupation among Ming thinkers with specialized linguistic learning, a field typically associated with the intellectual revolution of the eighteenth century. He explores the ... Read more

    $36.99 CAD

  • Politics of Chinese Language and Culture

    The Art of Reading Dragons

    by Bob Hodge, Kam Louie ...
    Series series Culture and Communication in Asia
    An innovative text which adopts the tools of cultural studies to provide a fresh approach to the study of Chinese language, culture and society. The book tackles areas such as grammar, language, gender, popular culture, film and the Chinese diaspora and employs the concepts of social semiotics to extend the ideas of language and reading. Covering a range of cultural texts, it will help to break ... Read more

    $108.99 CAD

  • Comparative Approaches to Chinese Philosophy

    Edited by Bo Mou ...
    Series series Ashgate World Philosophies Series
    This anthology explores how Chinese and Western philosophies could jointly and constructively contribute to a common philosophical enterprise. Philosophers with in-depth knowledge of both traditions present a variety of distinct comparative approaches, offering a refined introduction to the further reaches of Chinese philosophy in the comparative context, especially regarding its three major ... Read more

    $88.99 CAD

  • The Oxford Handbook of Modern Chinese Literatures

    Edited by Carlos Rojas, Andrea Bachner ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    With over forty original essays, The Oxford Handbook of Modern Chinese Literatures offers an in-depth engagement with the current analytical methodologies and critical practices that are shaping the field in the twenty-first century. Divided into three sections--Structure, Taxonomy, and Methodology--the volume carefully moves across approaches, genres, and forms to address a rich range topics that ... Read more

    $163.99 CAD