The problem of translation has become increasingly central to
critical reflections on modernity and its universalizing processes.
Approaching translation as a symbolic and material exchange among
peoples and civilizations--and not as a purely linguistic or
literary matter, the essays in "Tokens of Exchange" focus on China
and its interactions with the West to historicize an economy of
translation. Rejecting the familiar regional approach to
non-Western societies, contributors contend that "national
histories" and "world history" must be read with absolute attention
to the types of epistemological translatability that have been
constructed among the various languages and cultures in modern
times.
By studying the production and circulation of "meaning as value"
in areas including history, religion, language, law, visual art,
music, and pedagogy, essays consider exchanges between Jesuit and
Protestant missionaries and the Chinese between the seventeenth and
nineteenth centuries and focus on the interchanges occasioned by
the spread of capitalism and imperialism. Concentrating on
ideological reciprocity and nonreciprocity in science, medicine,
and cultural pathologies, contributors also posit that such
exchanges often lead to racialized and essentialized ideas about
culture, sexuality, and nation. The collection turns to the role of
language itself as a site of the universalization of knowledge in
its contemplation of such processes as the invention of Basic
English and the global teaching of the English language. By
focusing on the moments wherein "meaning-value" is exchanged in the
translation from one language to another, the essays highlight the
circulation of the global in the local as they address the role
played by historical translation in the universalizing processes of
modernity and globalization.
The collection will engage students and scholars of global
cultural processes, Chinese studies, world history, literary
studies, history of science, and anthropology, as well as cultural
and postcolonial studies.
"Contributors." Jianhua Chen, Nancy Chen, Alexis Dudden
Eastwood, Roger Hart, Larissa Heinrich, James Hevia, Andrew F.
Jones, Wan Shun Eva Lam, Lydia H. Liu, Deborah T. L. Sang, Haun
Saussy, Q. S. Tong, Qiong Zhang
General
Imprint: |
Duke University Press
|
Country of origin: |
United States |
Series: |
Post-Contemporary Interventions |
Release date: |
2000 |
First published: |
2000 |
Editors: |
Lydia H. Liu
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Dimensions: |
232 x 152 x 27mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Paperback - Trade
|
Pages: |
464 |
ISBN-13: |
978-0-8223-2424-9 |
Categories: |
Books >
Social sciences >
Sociology, social studies >
Ethnic studies >
General
|
LSN: |
0-8223-2424-5 |
Barcode: |
9780822324249 |
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