Modern Selfhood in Translation A Study of Progressive Translation Practices in China (1890s-1920s) /

• Main Author: Chi, Limin (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Singapore : Springer Singapore : Imprint: Springer, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Series: New Frontiers in Translation Studies,
• Subjects: Translation and interpretation.; Historical linguistics.; China-History.; Translation.; Historical Linguistics.; History of China.

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 preoccupatio...