Translingual Practice

Lyida H. Liu is Associate Professor of Chinese and Comparative Literature at the University of California, Berkeley.

出版者:Stanford University Press

作者:Lydia H. Liu

页数:496

出版时间:1995-1-1

价格:USD 38.95

装帧:Paperback

isbn号码:9780804725354

图书标签:刘禾海外中国研究中国文学文论literature近现代史Lydia-Liu翻譯理論

Are languages incommensurate? If so, how do people establish and maintain hypothetical equivalences between words and their meanings? What does it mean to translate one culture into the language of another on the basis of commonly conceived equivalences?This study -- bridging contemporary theory Chinese history, comparative literature, and culture studies -- analyzes the historical interactions among China, japan. and the West in terms of "translingual practice." By this term, the author refers to the process by which new words, meanings, discourses, and modes of representation arose, circulated, and acquired legitimacy in early modern China as it contacted/collided with European/Japanese languages and literatures. In reexamining the rise of modern Chinese literature in this context, the book asks three central questions: How did "modernity" and "the West" become legitimized in May Fourth literary discourse? What happened to native agency in this complex process of legitimation? How did the Chinese national culture imagine and interpret its own moment of unfolding?After the first chapter, which deals with the theoretical issues, ensuing chapters treat particular instances of translingual practice such as national character, individualism, stylistic innovations, first-person narration, and canon formation. The author reexamines the works of Lu Xun, Lao She, Shi Zhicun, Ding Ling, Xiao Hong, and others in this light, and concludes by probing the unprecedented conditions under which Chinese writers and critics moved from confidence in the absolute centrality of their civilization to rethinking Chinese literature and culture as one among many national literatures and cultures.Inshort, what does it mean to be Zhongguo ren (men and women of the Middle Kingdom) in terms of what is not of the Middle Kingdom?An appendix lists and classifies over 1,800 loanwords and neologisms introduced into modern Chinese before 1950, the largest annotated collection to be found a

读后感

When “Western” and Chinese scholars were obsessed with whether the Ming-Qing China had “the” modernity, or “a” different modernity (e.g., the impact-response debates initiated by Fairbank and Levenson, the public sphere discussion based on Habermas wi...  

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用户评价

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中国文化从晚清到民国的confrontation。有中文版就好了，好多名字还对不上号。读太快，需重读

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拜服

Lydia Liu's ability is way more than just proposing a fashionable concept and analytical category. She delivers and develops it in a solid and sophisticated way, which shows again that the literature criticism is worth reading for historians who usually tend to simplify human beings and their activities unwisely.