Translating foreign otherness : cross-cultural anxiety in modern China
Document Type
Book
Edition
1st ed.
Publication Date
9-2017
Publisher
Routledge
Abstract
This book explores the deep-rooted anxiety about foreign otherness manifest through translation in modern China in its endeavours to engage in cross-cultural exchanges. It offers to theorize and contextualize a related range of issues concerning translation practice in response to foreign otherness. The book also introduces new vistas to some of the under-explored aspects of translation practice concerning ideology and cultural politics from the late Qing dynasty to the present day. Largely as a result of translation, ethnocentric beliefs and feelings have given way to a more open and liberal way to approach and appropriate foreign otherness. However, the fear of Westernization, seen as a threat to Chinese cultural integrity and social stability, is still shown sporadically through the state’s ideological control over translation. The book interprets, questions and reformulates a number of the key theoretical issues in Translation Studies and also demonstrates their ramifications in a bid to shed light on Chinese translation practice.
DOI
10.4324/9781315187686
ISBN
9781138733282
Publisher Statement
Copyright © 2017 Routledge.
Language
English
Recommended Citation
Sun, Y. (2017). Translating foreign otherness: Cross-cultural anxiety in modern China. New York: Routledge. doi: 10.4324/9781315187686