Among the Best, Vol. 2 (English)

Among the Best: Stephen C. Soong Chinese Translation Studies Awards 1999-2004 (Volume 2)

孔慧怡編
Edited by Eva Hung

2005
223 pages

ISBN: 978-962-7255-32-7

　　Set up by the Research Centre for Translation, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, with a donation from the Soong family, the Stephen C. Soong Translation Studies Awards aim at encouraging original research in Chinese Translation Studies, particularly in the use of first-hand sources for historical and cultural investigations. The present volume contains 20 papers. They represent some of the best works in Chinese translation scholarship in recent years.

Foreword

Eva Hung

English Papers

Faithfulness, Manipulation, and Ideology: A Descriptive Study of Chinese Translation Tradition	Chang Nam Fung	9
Polysystem Theory: Its Prospect as a Framework for Translation Research	Chang Nam Fung	36
Politics and Poetics in Translation: Accounting for a Chinese Version of Yes Prime Minister	Chang Nam Fung	53
Translation and Power: A Hong Kong Case Study	Martha Cheung	82
Tailoring Translation Programmes to Social Needs: A Survey of Professional Translators	Li Defeng	101
The Chinese and Western Translation Traditions in Comparison	Tan Zaixi	126
Integration of Form and Content for Communication Through Translation: With Reference to Pronouns in Chinese Discourse	Zhu Chunshen	154
Perception and Cognition in Translating Chinese Landscape Poetry: A Case Study of Liu Zongyuan’s poem ‘River Snow’	Zhu Chunshen	177

Abstracts of Chinese Papers

From Periphery to Centre (?): Past and Future of Chinese Translation Studies As Viewed froma Polysystemic Perspective	Chang Nam Fung	199
Simple Translation vs. Sophisticated Translation: A Critical Survey of Theory of Buddhist Translation in China	Chu Chi Yu	201
Interdisciplinary Transplantation in Translation Studies	Li Yunxing	203
Translation as Discourse: A Re-reading of Wei Yi and Lin Shu’s Chinese Translation of Uncle Tom’s Cabin	Martha P. C. Cheung	205
Comparative Study of Chinese and Western Translation Theory: An Important Area of Research for Translation Studies	Tan Zaixi	206
Cultural Identification of Foreign Concepts: A Hypothesis	Wang Dongfeng	208
The Cultural Positioning of Translated Literature and the Cultural Attitude of the Translator	Wang Dongfeng	210
Ideology and China’s History of Literary Translation in the 20th Century: 1899-1979	Wang Yougui	212
Literary Translation and Theory of Criticism	Xia Zhongyi	214
Integrating the Empathy and Perspectives of Authors, Translator and Reader: A Case of Text Recreation	Xu Jun	216
On ‘Laws’ of Translating Manipulation－A Dialectical Probe into the Relations between Translation Theory and Practice	Zeng Lisha	218
A Study of China’s 1980s Translation Movement from the Perspective of its Organization Methods	Wang Xiaoming	220

Notes on Authors		222

Among the Best: Stephen C. Soong Chinese Translation Studies Awards 1999-2004 (Volume 2)

Table of Contents