Translation and Global Asia: Relocating Networks of Cultural Production

Asian Translation Traditions Series
　　(Volume 1)

Edited by Uganda Sze-pui Kwan & Lawrence Wang-chi Wong

2014
305 pages
ISBN: 978-962-996-608-9

	Acknowledgements				ix
	Introduction		Uganda Sze-pui KWAN		xi

Disembodiment and Dissemination: The Chinese Factor

Japanese Poetry in Chinese Translation from the Ming Period	Joshua FOGEL	3
Translation and Sinicization: 　　Xiaojing Translation in Tuoba Wei and Mongol Yuan	Jae-ho SHIN	31
*“Chouban yiwu” (Handling the Affairs of the Barbarians):* 　　Translators in the Translation History of the Eighteenth to Nineteenth Century China	Lawrence Wang-chi WONG	55

Cultural Divergence and Assimilation through Translation

“What’s in a Name?” 　　North Korean Literary Translators and the Appropriation of Foreign Culture from the Late 1940s to the Mid-1960s, the Case of Im Hak-Su	Theresa HYUN	87
Tinio Translating: May Katwiran Ba?	Corazon D. VILLAREAL	107
Translating the Foreign into the Local: 　　The Cultural Production and Canonization of Buddhist Texts in Imperial Tibet	Georgios T. HALKIAS	143

Navigating and Negotiating Cultural Space through Literary Translation

Habitations of Resistance: 　　The Role of Translation in the Creation of a Literary Public Sphere in Kerala	E. V. RAMAKRISHNAN	169
Russian Literature in Marathi Polysystem: 　　In the Colonial and Neocolonial Context	Megha PANSARE	183
The Emerging Literariness: 　　Translation, Dynamic Canonicity and the Problematic Verisimilitude in EarlyThai Prose Fictions	Phrae CHITTIPHALANGSRI	207

(De)Colonialization and Elite Collusion

	“Incest Performed”: 　　The Neocolonial Perversion of Translation in Malaysia		Nazry BAHRAWI		243
	Transnational Mobility, Translation, and Transference: 　　The Cultural Identities of British Interpreters in Two Colonial Asian Cities (1840–1880)		Uganda Sze-pui KWAN		265

Contributors

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