Lydia H. Liu is Helmut F. Stern Professor of Chinese Studies at the University of Michigan.
What is lost in translation may be a war, a world, a way of life. A unique look into the nineteenth-century clash of empires from both sides of the earthshaking encounter, this book reveals the connections between international law, modern warfare, and comparative grammar--and their influence on the shaping of the modern world in Eastern and Western terms.
The Clash of Empires brings to light the cultural legacy of sovereign thinking that emerged in the course of the violent meetings between the British Empire and the Qing Dynasty (1644-1911). Lydia Liu demonstrates how the collision of imperial will and competing interests, rather than the civilizational attributes of existing nations and cultures, led to the invention of "China," "the East," "the West," and the modern notion of "the world" in recent history. Drawing on her archival research and comparative analyses of English--and Chinese--language texts, as well as their respective translations, she explores how the rhetoric of barbarity and civilization, friend and enemy, and discourses on sovereign rights, injury, and dignity were a central part of British imperial warfare. Exposing the military and philological--and almost always translingual--nature of the clash of empires, this book provides a startlingly new interpretation of modern imperial history.
刘禾在她的上一本中文著作《跨语际实践》中批判了翻译行为所预设的等值性,把以往被人们当作中介的翻译提高到更重要的地位上来讨论。有书评反驳说中国的跨文化交流早就有了,刘禾虚张声势;与现代西方思想对汉语的影响相比,古代佛经对汉语的影响可能更大。 但是,这个批评恰恰...
评分越来越觉得,美国学者弗雷德里克•詹姆逊提出的“政治无意识”是个非常重要的概念,意识形态和政治观念的阴影总是深深渗透在文本与叙述当中,防不胜防。而一个学者的锐利就体现在这样的时刻:将那些难以察觉的政治欲望从文本的深井中打捞出来,这些打捞物宛如危险边缘的警戒...
评分这本书的内容是关于“19世纪以来围绕主权想象的跨文化知识传统和话语政治”。与很多近代史研究的著作不同,它的关注点放在了语言等表意符号上的政治碰撞——“跨语际”的主权想象和冲突上面。 该书所着重分析的几个符号事件,如衍指符号“夷/i/barbarian”的创造、《新约全书...
评分[按:由于写作业的关系,把这本书重新看了一遍。不得不承认,这本书在很大程度上是一本不完整的书,书中零散着很多小处洞见,但谈不上大的架构,这和作者导言里表现的雄心壮志,相去甚远。如果有谁想否认这一点,我希望他可以尝试为本书第五章写一个概述,那么他就会发现,要总...
评分为了引出所谓的亮点super sign,铺垫了不少语言学符号学的概念,其实直接说翻译引发的一场血案不就完了吗?不知道该怎么理解这本书,使用一个晦涩的理论来解读历史?还是用清英帝国碰撞来论证这套理论?另外不明白反复提到的sovereign thinking是什么意思,求科普
评分感谢!
评分读了导论和第三章。
评分第二章和第三章关于yi在中英条约的探讨很不错,但后面的章节略散乱,没有很好地展开argument,更多的是事实的罗列~
评分妈妈再也不用担心我的毕业论文啦!
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