Translingual Practice Literature, National Culture, and Translated Modernity--China, 1900-1937

Name: Translingual Practice Literature, National Culture, and Translated Modernity--China, 1900-1937
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ISBN: 9780804725354

ISBN-10: 0804725357

ISBN-13: 9780804725354

Edition: 1996

Authors: Lydia H. Liu

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This study combines literary theory, Chines history, comparative literature and cultural studies to analyse the historical interactions between China, Japan and the West in terms of 'translingual practice'.

Book details

List price: $55.00
Copyright year: 1996
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Publication date: 1/1/1995
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 496
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.20" tall
Weight: 1.496

Lydia H. Liu is Helmut F. Stern Professor of Chinese Studies, University of Michigan.



Preface



Introduction: The Problem of Language in Cross-Cultural Studies



Translating National Character: Lu Xun and Arthur Smith



The Discourse of Individualism



Homo Economicus and the Question of Novelistic Realism



Narratives of Desire: Negotiating the Real and the Fantastic



The Deixis of Writing in the First Person



Literary Criticism as a Discourse of Legitimation



The Making of the Compendium of Modern Chinese Literature



Rethinking Culture and National Essence


A. Neologisms Derived from Missionary-Chinese Texts and Their Routes of Diffusion


B. Sino-Japanese-European Loanwords in Modern Chinese


C. Sino-Japanese Loanwords in Modern Chinese


D. Return Graphic Loans: Kanji Terms Derived from Classical Chinese


E. A Sampling of Suffixed and Prefixed Compounds from Modern Japanese


F. Transliterations from English, French, and German


G. Transliterations from Russian


Notes


Selected Bibliography


Character List


Index