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Readers, Reading and Reception of Translated Fiction in Chinese

Novel Encounters

By: Leo Tak-hung Chan

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Readers, Reading and Reception of Translated Fiction in Chinese

Novel Encounters

By: Leo Tak-hung Chan

Translated fiction has largely been under-theorized, if not altogether ignored, in literary studies. Though widely consumed, translated novels are still considered secondary versions of foreign masterpieces. Readers, Reading and Reception of Translated Fiction in Chinese recognizes that translated novels are distinct from non-translated novels, just as they are distinct from the originals from which they are derived, but they are neither secondary nor inferior. They provide different models of reality; they are split apart by two languages, two cultures and two literary systems; and they are characterized by cultural hybridity, double voicing and multiple intertextualities. With the continued popularity of translated fiction, questions related to its reading and reception take on increasing significance. Chan draws on insights from textual and narratological studies to unravel the processes through which readers interact with translated fiction. Moving from individual readings to collective reception, he considers how lay Chinese readers, as a community, 'received' translated British fiction at specific historical moments during the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. Case studies discussed include translations of stream-of-consciousness novels, fantasy fiction and postmodern works. In addition to lay readers, two further kinds of reader with bilingual facility are examined: the way critics and historians approach translated fiction is investigated from structuralist and poststrcuturalist perspectives. A range of novels by well-known British authors constitute the core of the study, including novels by Oscar Wilde, James Joyce, D.H. Lawrence, Virginia Woolf, John Fowles, Helen Fielding and J.K. Rowling.

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Routledge

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131764123X

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9781317641230

The Discourse on Foxes and Ghosts

Ji Yun and Eighteenth-Century Literati Story-telling

By: Leo Tak-Hung Chan

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The Discourse on Foxes and Ghosts

Ji Yun and Eighteenth-Century Literati Story-telling

By: Leo Tak-Hung Chan

The fiction of Xu works across boundaries, fusing Daoist traditions with the pessimism of Western nihilism.

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386

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University of Hawaii Press

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0824820517

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9780824820510

Twentieth-Century Chinese Translation Theory

Modes, issues and debates

By: Leo Tak-hung Chan

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Twentieth-Century Chinese Translation Theory

Modes, issues and debates

By: Leo Tak-hung Chan

Past attempts at writing a history of Chinese translation theory have been bedeviled by a chronological approach, which often forces the writer to provide no more than a list of important theories and theorists over the centuries. Or they have stretched out to almost every aspect related to translation in China, so that the historical/political backdrop that had an influence on translation theorizing turns out to be more important than the theories themselves. In the present book, the author hopes to devote exclusive attention to the ideas themselves. The approach adopted centers around eight key issues that engaged the attention of theorists through the course of the twentieth century, in the hope that a historical account will be presented that is not time-bound. On the basis of 38 articles translated into English by teachers and scholars of translation, the author has written four essays discussing the Chinese characteristics of this body of theory. Separately they focus on the impressionistic, the modern, the postcolonial, and the poststructuralist approaches deployed by leading Chinese theorists from 1901 to 1998. It is hoped that publication of this book will make possible cross-cultural dialogue with translation academics in the West, although the general reader will find much firsthand information on Chinese thinking about translation.

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John Benjamins Publishing

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9027295670

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9789027295675

Western Theory in East Asian Contexts

Translation and Transtextual Rewriting

By: Leo Tak-hung Chan

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Western Theory in East Asian Contexts

Translation and Transtextual Rewriting

By: Leo Tak-hung Chan

Literatures, Cultures, Translation presents a new line of books that engage central issues in translation studies such as history, politics, and gender in and of literary translation. This is a culturally situated study of the interface between three forms of transtextual rewriting: translation, adaptation and imitation. Two questions are raised: first, how a broader rubric can be formulated for the inclusion of the latter two forms within Translation Studies research, and second, how this enlarged definition of translation enables us to understand the incompatibilities between contemporary Western theories of translation and East Asian realities, past and present. Recent decades have seen a surge of scholarly interest in adaptations and imitations, due to the flourishing of cinema and fandom studies, and to the impact of a poststructuralist turn that sheds new light on derivative literature. Against this backdrop, a plethora of examples from the East Asian cultural sphere are analyzed to show how rewriters have freely appropriated, transcreated and recontextualized their source texts. In particular, Sino-Japanese case studies are contrasted with Sino-English ones, with both groups read against evolving traditions of thinking about free forms of translation, East and West.

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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1501327844

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9781501327841

Readers, Reading and Reception of Translated Fiction in Chinese

Novel Encounters

By: Leo Tak-hung Chan

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Novel Encounters

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Routledge

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Twentieth-Century Chinese Translation Theory

Modes, issues and debates

By: Leo Tak-hung Chan

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Modes, issues and debates

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Book's by Leo Tak-hung Chan

Readers, Reading and Reception of Translated Fiction in Chinese

Readers, Reading and Reception of Translated Fiction in Chinese

The Discourse on Foxes and Ghosts

The Discourse on Foxes and Ghosts

Twentieth-Century Chinese Translation Theory

Twentieth-Century Chinese Translation Theory

Western Theory in East Asian Contexts

Western Theory in East Asian Contexts

Readers, Reading and Reception of Translated Fiction in Chinese

Readers, Reading and Reception of Translated Fiction in Chinese

Twentieth-Century Chinese Translation Theory

Twentieth-Century Chinese Translation Theory

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