Translating Early Modern China (Paperback)

Language: English

Published by Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2023

0198888155 / 9780198888154

Series: Book 6 of 12 - Global Asias

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Paperback. The history of China, as any history, is a story of and in translation. Translating Early Modern China tells the story of translation in China to and from non-European languages and Latin between the fourteenth and the nineteenth centuries, and primarily in the Ming and Qing dynasties. Each chapter finds a particular translator resurrected from the past to tell the story of a text that helped shape the history of translation in China. In Chinese, Mongolian,Manchu, Latin, and more, these texts helped to make the Chinese language what it was at different points in its history. This volume explores what the form of an academic history book might look like byplaying with fictioning as part of the historian's craft. The book's many storiesEDof glossaries and official Ming translation bureaus, of bilingual Ming Chinese-Mongolian language primers, of the first Latin grammar of Manchu, of a Qing Manchu conversation manual, of a collection of Manchu poems by a Qing translatorEDserve as case studies that open out into questions of language and translation in China's past, of the use of fiction as a historian's tool, and of the ways that translationcreates language. A volume on translation and language in China from the fifteenth to mid-nineteenth centuries. It uses fictional narrative to discuss translators who worked between Chinese and (mostly) non-European languages and studies dictionaries, language primers, grammars, poetry collections, and conversation manuals. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

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Title
Translating Early Modern China (Paperback)
Author
Prof Carla Nappi
Publisher
Oxford University Press, Oxford
Publication year
2023
Condition
new
Binding
Paperback
Language
English
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0198888155
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9780198888154
Series
Book 6 of 12: Global Asias

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