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  title info:
    title: Modern Selfhood in Translation
    sub title: A Study of Progressive Translation Practices in China (1890s-1920s)
  name:
    name part: Chi, Limin.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
    role:
      role term: aut
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      role term: http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: si
    date issued: 2019
    edition: 1st ed. 2019.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: XXXV, 220 p. 1 illus. online resource.
  abstract: This book examines the development of Chinese translation practice in relation to the rise of ideas of modern selfhood in China from the 1890s to the 1920s. The key translations produced by late Qing and early Republican Chinese intellectuals over the three decades in question reflect a preoccupation with new personality ideals informed by foreign models and the healthy development of modern individuality, in the face of crises compounded by feelings of cultural inadequacy. The book clarifies how these translated works supplied the meanings for new terms and concepts that signify modern human experience, and sheds light on the ways in which they taught readers to internalize the idea of the modern as personal experience. Through their selection of source texts and their adoption of different translation strategies, the translators chosen as case studies championed a progressive view of the world: one that was open-minded and humanistic. The late Qing construction of modern Chinese identity, instigated under the imperative of national salvation in the aftermath of the First Sino-Japanese War, wielded a far-reaching influence on the New Culture discourse. This book argues that the New Culture translations, being largely explorations of modern self-consciousness, helped to produce an egalitarian cosmopolitan view of modern being. This was a view favoured by the majority of mainland intellectuals in the post-Maoist 1980s and which has since become an important topic in mainland scholarship.
  table of contents: Introduction -- Modernization Through Translation: Shifts and Trends (1890s - 1900s) -- Translation as an Education in Modern Values: Yan Fu and Liang Qichao -- Making a "New Culture" Through Translation -- Translating New Culture into a Collective Identity -- Constructing the Modern Self in Translation (I) - Hu Shi -- Constructing the Modern Self in Translation (II) - Zhou Zuoren -- Constructing the Modern Self in Translation (III) - Lu Xun -- Conclusion -- References -- Appendix.
  note: by Limin Chi.
  subject:
    topic: Translation and interpretation
  subject:
    topic: Historical linguistics
  subject:
    topic: China-History
  subject:
    topic: Translation
  subject:
    topic: Historical Linguistics
  subject:
    topic: History of China
  classification: P306-310
  classification: 418.02
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    title info:
      title: Springer eBooks
  related item:
    title info:
      title: New Frontiers in Translation Studies
  identifier: 9789811311567
  identifier: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-1156-7
  record info:
    record creation date: 180903
    record change date: 20191220130541.0
    record identifier: 978-981-13-1156-7