Translating early modern China : illegible cities /

Translating early modern China : illegible cities /

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Author / Creator:	Nappi, Carla Suzan, 1977- author.
Edition:	First edition.
Imprint:	Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2021.
Description:	x, 240 pages ; 24 cm.
Language:	English
Series:	Global Asias Global Asias.
Subject:	Translating and interpreting -- China -- History. Chinese language -- Translating -- History. Chinese literature -- Translations -- History and criticism. Chinese language -- Translating. Chinese literature -- Translations. Translating and interpreting. China. Criticism, interpretation, etc. History.
Format:	E-Resource Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12638541

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ISBN:	0198866399 9780198866398
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:	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 by playing with fictioning as part of the historian's craft. The book's many stories-of 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 translator-serve 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 translation creates language.

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Call Number:	P306.8.C6 N37 2021
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