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The Translatability of Revolution - Guo Moruo and Twentieth-Century Chinese Culture (Hardcover)
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The Translatability of Revolution - Guo Moruo and Twentieth-Century Chinese Culture (Hardcover)
Series: Harvard East Asian Monographs
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The first comprehensive study of the lifework of Guo Moruo
(1892-1978) in English, this book explores the dynamics of
translation, revolution, and historical imagination in
twentieth-century Chinese culture. Guo was a romantic writer who
eventually became Mao Zedong's last poetic interlocutor; a Marxist
historian who evolved into the inaugural president of China's
Academy of Sciences; and a leftist politician who devoted almost
three decades to translating Goethe's Faust. His career, embedded
in China's revolutionary century, has generated more controversy
than admiration. Recent scholarship has scarcely treated his oeuvre
as a whole, much less touched upon his role as a translator.
Leaping between different genres of Guo's works, and engaging many
other writers' texts, The Translatability of Revolution confronts
two issues of revolutionary cultural politics: translation and
historical interpretation. Part 1 focuses on the translingual
making of China's revolutionary culture, especially Guo's
translation of Faust as a "development of Zeitgeist." Part 2 deals
with Guo's rewritings of antiquity in lyrical, dramatic, and
historiographical-paleographical forms, including his vernacular
translation of classical Chinese poetry. Interrogating the
relationship between translation and historical imagination-within
revolutionary cultural practice-this book finds a transcoding of
different historical conjunctures into "now-time," saturated with
possibilities and tensions.
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