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Surviving in Violent Conflicts - Chinese Interpreters in the Second Sino-Japanese War 1931-1945 (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2016)
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Surviving in Violent Conflicts - Chinese Interpreters in the Second Sino-Japanese War 1931-1945 (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2016)
Series: Palgrave Studies in Languages at War
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This book examines the relatively little-known history of
interpreting in the Second Sino-Japanese War (1931-45). Chapters
within explore how Chinese interpreters were trained and deployed
as an important military and political asset by competing domestic
and international powers, including the Chinese Nationalist
Government (Kuomingtang), the Chinese Communist Party and Japanese
forces. Drawing from a wide range of sources, including archives in
mainland China and Taiwan, memoirs and interviews with former
military interpreters, it discusses how the interpreting profession
was affected by shifts of foreign policy and how interpreters'
professional habitus was formed through their training and
interaction with other social agents and institutions. By
investigating individual interpreters' career development and
border-crossing strategies, it questions the assumption of
interpreting as an exclusive profession and highlights
interpreters' active position-taking as a strategy of
self-protection, a route to power, or just a chance of a better
life.
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