Modern selfhood in translation : a study of progressive translation practices in China (1890s-1920s) / Limin Chi.
Chi, Limin, author.
2019
P306 .C45 2019
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Title Modern selfhood in translation : a study of progressive translation practices in China (1890s-1920s) / Limin Chi.
Author Chi, Limin, author.
ISBN 9789811311567 (electronic bk.)
9811311560 (electronic bk.)
9811311552
9789811311550
9789811311574 (print)
9811311579
9789811345784 (print)
9811345783
DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-1156-7
Publication Details Singapore : Springer, [2019]
Copyright ©2019
Language English
Description 1 online resource
Item Number 10.1007/978-981-13-1156-7 doi
Call Number P306 .C45 2019
Dewey Decimal Classification 418.02
Summary This book examines the development of Chinese translation practice in relation to the rise of ideas of modern selfhood in China from the 1890s to the 1920s. The key translations produced by late Qing and early Republican Chinese intellectuals over the three decades in question reflect a preoccupation with new personality ideals informed by foreign models and the healthy development of modern individuality, in the face of crises compounded by feelings of cultural inadequacy. The book clarifies how these translated works supplied the meanings for new terms and concepts that signify modern human experience, and sheds light on the ways in which they taught readers to internalize the idea of the modern as personal experience. Through their selection of source texts and their adoption of different translation strategies, the translators chosen as case studies championed a progressive view of the world: one that was open-minded and humanistic. The late Qing construction of modern Chinese identity, instigated under the imperative of national salvation in the aftermath of the First Sino-Japanese War, wielded a far-reaching influence on the New Culture discourse. This book argues that the New Culture translations, being largely explorations of modern self-consciousness, helped to produce an egalitarian cosmopolitan view of modern being. This was a view favoured by the majority of mainland intellectuals in the post-Maoist 1980s and which has since become an important topic in mainland scholarship.-- Provided by publisher.
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Series New frontiers in translation studies.
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Introduction
Modernization Through Translation: Shifts and Trends (1890s - 1900s)
Translation as an Education in Modern Values: Yan Fu and Liang Qichao
Making a "New Culture" Through Translation
Translating New Culture into a Collective Identity
Constructing the Modern Self in Translation (I) - Hu Shi
Constructing the Modern Self in Translation (II) - Zhou Zuoren
Constructing the Modern Self in Translation (III) - Lu Xun
Conclusion
References
Appendix.

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