Translating Early Modern China: Illegible Cities by Carla Nappi

Frei, Elisa

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“…21 I have reviewed this book on its own elsewhere, but I begin my take with it here as its background offers a direct view into the relationship between scholarship and the concerns of the government of China. 22 A story of court translation in the Yuan (1271-1368), Ming (1368-1644), and Qing (1644-1911) dynasties, via a study of the Translators' College (siyi guan 四夷館, tongwen guan 同文館) with chapters arranged by year (1578, 1389/1608, 1678, 1730, 1848), Nappi imagines a gathering of translators where each presents "a text, a document that represents a crucial point in the history of translation in early modern China." 23 Her book is not limited to the historiographical trend called the New Qing History, but it is clearly inspired by and expansive of its visions and revisions.…”

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The Translational Turn and the Dual Pressures on Chinese Literary Studies

Klein

2024

Postcolon. Lit. inq

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Whereas sinology, or the study of Chinese literature in English, has often been identifiable by a Chinese culturism, or belief in Chinese civilization as a coherent whole united by its writing system, this review article looks at five books that could be described as participating in a “translational turn” in Chinese literary studies. Yet even as they make powerful arguments against the fundamental unity and cohesiveness of a diachronic Chinese cultural-political identity in their translingual and translational approaches to scholarship, the books—Carla Nappi’s Translating Early Modern China (2021), Haun Saussy’s The Making of Barbarians (2022), Tze-Yin Teo’s If Babel Had A Form (2022), Yunte Huang’s Chinese Whispers (2022), and Nan Z. Da’s Intransitive Encounter (2018)—risk taking for granted the longevity of China’s participation in globalization and its economic integration with the United States. In light of current changes to the relationship between China, the US, and the world order, this review article reads these books while attempting to think through the gains and pitfalls of the translational turn in Chinese literary studies.

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The Translational Turn and the Dual Pressures on Chinese Literary Studies

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2024

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Translating Early Modern China: Illegible Cities by Carla Nappi

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The Translational Turn and the Dual Pressures on Chinese Literary Studies

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