Asian Translation Traditions

Eva Tsoi Hung Hung, Judy Wakabayashi

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2014
• ISBN:
  9781317640479
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Languages & Linguistics
• Subtopic: Linguistics
• Index: Languages & Linguistics

Translation Studies, one of the fastest developing fields in the humanities since the early 1980s, has so far been Euro-centric both in its theoretical explorations and in its historical grounding. One of the major reasons for this is the unavailability of reliable data and systematic analysis of translation activities in non-Eurpean cultures. While a number of scholars in the Western tradition of translation studies have become increasingly aware of this bias and its problems, practically indicates that the burden of addressing such defiencies and imbalances should be on the shoulders of scholars who are conversant with the non-Western translation traditions and capable of engaging in much-nedded basic research.

This book brings together eleven scholars with expertise in different Asian translation traditions, who highlight language and cultural environments as well as perceptions and modes of operation often different from those in the Western tradition. Their contributions enhance our understanding of the various elements that influence the transfer of knowledge across cultures and provide invaluable data for the study of translation as a force for cultural development and cultural planning.

Contributors include Eva Hung, Judy Wakabayashi, Lawrence Wong, Yoshihiro Osawa, Teresa Hyun, Keith Taylor, Rita Kothari, Doris Jedamski, Raniela Barbaza and Bill Cummings.

Index

The notations A, C, J, H, K, M, T, or V used after a transliterated term respectively indicate that the term is Arabic, Chinese, Hindi, Japanese, Korean, Malay, Tagalog or Vietnamese.

‘gods and devils’, 32

‘mandarin ducks and butterflies’ love stories, 34

‘six-eight’ verse, 34

‘talented scholars and beautiful maiden’, 32, 34

A Man, 175–182

abstract concepts and terms, 25, 139, 176, 177, 179, 181, 182, 183, 184, 185

adaptation(s), 10, 12, 33, 46, 52–54, 58, 156, 197, 206, 213, 214, 217, 218, 223, 225–231, 236, 239–243, 263, 266, 271, 272

adventure novels and stories, 14, 45, 125, 219–20, 234–235, 248, 250, 255

aesthetics, 8, 14, 149, 156, 162

agglutinative languages, 28

Al Fatihah, 202, 203, 204, 206

Allen, Young J., 94, 120

alphabet, 19, 22, 57 n55, 119, 166, 171

Vietnamese, 170, 190

Altaic language family, 21

Amin, Enci’, 197, 199

Amoghavajra, 90

An Shigao, 85, 86, 91, 102, 103

Anglo-Chinese War, 114, 118, 121

annotation of texts, 23, 24, 170, 184, 190.

See also kambun kundoku

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Table of contents

• Cover
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Dedication
• Table of Contents
• Introduction
• Translation in the East Asian Cultural Sphere Shared Roots, Divergent Paths?
• Translation in China – An Analytical Survey First Century B.C.E. to Early Twentieth Century
• From ‘Controlling the Barbarians’ to ‘Wholesale Westernization’ Translation and Politics in Late Imperial and Early Republican China, 1840–1919
• Amalgamation of Literariness Translations as a Means of Introducing European Literary Techniques to Modern Japan
• The Lover’s Silence, The People’s Voice Translating Nationalist Poetics in the Colonial Period in Korea
• Sino–Vietnamese Translation from Classical to Vernacular
• Rethinking the Translation in Translation Studies Questions from Makassar, Indonesia
• Translation in the Malay World Different Communities, Different Agendas
• Translation and the Korido Negotiating Identity in Philippine Metrical Romances
• The Fiction of Translation
• Notes on Contributors
• Index