Translating Early Modern China: Illegible Cities Nappi Carla
Translating Early Modern China: Illegible Cities Nappi Carla The history of China, as any history, is a story of and in translation. Each chapter finds a particular translator resurrected from the…
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Translating Early Modern China: Illegible Cities Nappi Carla
The history of China, as any history, is a story of and in translation. Each chapter finds a particular translator resurrected from the past to tell the story of a text that helped shape the history of translation in China. Translating Early Modern China tells the story of translation in China to and from non-European languages and Latin between the fourteenth and the nineteenth centuries, and primarily in the Ming and Qing dynasties.
This volume explores what the form of an academic history book might look like by playing with fictioning as part of the historian's craft. In Chinese, Mongolian, Manchu, Latin, and more, these texts helped to make the Chinese language what it was at different points in its history. The book's many stories--of glossaries and official Ming translation bureaus, of bilingual Ming Chinese-Mongolian language primers, of the first Latin grammar of
Modern China
Early Modern Architecture
Making China Modern
Early Modern Emotions
Early China Li Feng
Early Modern Jewry
Cities in China Ng Hiuling
Antipodean Early Modern
Early Modern Japanese Literature
Being Modern in China
China in Five Cities Brown Kerry