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1 online resource (xiv, 206 pages) : illustrations |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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"The essays are revised papers selected from a conference "Culture in Translation: Reception of Chinese Literature in the World held at the Open University of Hong Kong in January 2011"--Preface. |
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Preface -- Introduction: Culture, reception and translation / Kwok-kan Tam, Kelly Kar-yue Chan -- The writer as translator: on the creative aesthetics of Gao Xingjian / Mabel Lee -- Lady precious stream, diaspora literature, and cultural interpretation / Da Zheng -- Traditions, modernity, parataxis and the self: Chinese poetry and the anglophone Avant-Garde / Lucas Klein -- L.A. Cranmert-Byng and the western reception of Tang poetry / Lan Jiang -- Translating culture: (re)constructing regionalism in English translations of Taiwan's regional prose literature / Yun-fang Lo -- A dilemma for the translator: bicultural elements in bilingual texts / Kwok-kan Tam -- The role translation played in the Mei Lanfang US tour in 1930 / Teresa Wang -- Wild orchid in a secluded valley: a positive image of Chinese womanhood in Lin Yutang's "A nun of Taishan" / Fang Lu -- Between borrowing and retention: the translation of Zhu Shuzhen's poems / Kelly Kar-yue Chan -- From Gogol to Lu Xun and after: politics, culture and reception / Garfield Chi-sum Lau -- Metamorphoses for better reception: the Chinese translation of The brotherhood of the seven kings in Hong Kong / Bo Li -- Love novels in translation: Joan Haste as an example of domestication / Qian Liu -- Notes on contributors -- Index. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Chinese literature -- Congresses.
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Chinese literature. |
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Chinese literature -- Translations into English -- Congresses.
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Chinese literature -- Translations into English. |
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Language and culture -- Congresses.
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Language and culture. |
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Culture in literature -- Congresses.
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Culture in literature. |
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Electronic books.
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Conference papers and proceedings.
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Conference papers and proceedings.
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| Added Author |
Tam, Kwok-kan, editor.
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Chan, Kelly Kar Yue, editor.
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Culture in Translation: Reception of Chinese Literature in the World (2011 : Hong Kong, China)
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Reception of Chinese literature in comparative perspective |
| Other Form: |
Print version: Culture in translation. Kowloon, Hong Kong : Open University of Hong Kong Press, 2012 9789627707899 (OCoLC)801496775 |
| ISBN |
9781461930419 (electronic book) |
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1461930413 (electronic book) |
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9627707961 (electronic book) |
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9789627707967 (electronic book) |
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9789627707899 |
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9627707899 |
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