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Translation and Modernization in East Asia in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries

Asian Translation Traditions Series
　　(Volume 3)

Edited by Lawrence Wang-chi Wong

2017
380 pages
ISBN: 978-988-237-051-7

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Table of Contents

Acknowledgementsix
IntroductionLawrence Wang-chi WONGxi
The Meiji Government’s Strategic Deployment of Non-Fiction Translation as a Vehicle of ModernizationJudy WAKABAYASHI1
Translated Modernity and Gender Politics in Colonial KoreaHyaeweol CHOI31
Rejuvenating the Nation:
　　Translation, Nationalism, and the Establishment of Children’s
Literature in Korea in the Early Twentieth Century		Theresa HYUN71
The Project of the Modernization of Chinese HistoriographyHans KÜHNER91
Translating Authority:
　　In Search of Commensurability between Tianxia World Order
and Western Sovereignty		Maria Adele CARRAI131
“Entrance into the Family of Nations”:
　　Translation and the First Diplomatic Missions to the West, 1860s-1870s		Lawrence Wang-chi WONG165
Civilization in Transformation:
　　Liang Qichao’s Theory and Practice of Translation, 1890s-1920s		Satoru HASHIMOTO219
The First Translations of the Italian Literary Avant-Garde Movement in the Chinese Press at the Beginning of the Twentieth CenturyAlessandra BREZZI253
World of Fiction, Fiction of the World:
　　The Butterfly Translation of Modernity in Story World Magazine		John Christopher HAMM279
Negotiating Chinese Modernity through the Translation of Tears:
　　Two “Foreign” Tragic Love Stories from Early Twentieth-Century China		Yun ZHU307
From “Geschäftiger Geist” to “Zeitgeist”:
　　On Guo Moruo’s Translation of Goethe’s Faust		Pu WANG341
Contributors377