Interpreters in early imperial China / Rachel Lung.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lung, Rachel.

Series:

Benjamins translation library ; v. 96.

Benjamins translation library (BTL), 0929-7316 ; v. 96

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Translators--China.

Translators.

Translating and interpreting.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (199 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub. Co., 2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This monograph examines interpreters in early imperial China and their roles in the making of archival records about foreign countries and peoples. It covers ten empirical studies on historical interpreting and discusses a range of issues, such as interpreters' identities, ethics, non-mediating tasks, status, and relations with their patrons and other people they worked with. These findings are based on critical readings of primary and secondary sources, which have rarely been utilized and analyzed in depth even in translation research published in Chinese.Although this is a book about C

Contents:

Interpreters in Early Imperial China; Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; Table of contents; Preface; Introduction; Acknowledgments; Chronology; 1. Perceptions of translating / interpreting in first-century China; 2. Bridging language barriers in encounters with China in sixth-century Asia; 4. Translation officials in Tang China (618-907); 5. Interpreters and archival records of foreign contacts of imperial China; 6. Interpreters and the writing of histories about interlingual encounters; 7. Interpreters as consultants in historiography in eighth-century China

8. Interpreters and the making of the Kirghiz Memoir and Kirghiz accounts9. Oral translators in outbound diplomatic correspondence; 10. Sogdian interpreters in Tang China: An issue of loyalty; Conclusion; Appendix: The thirteen letters and the two exceptions; Bibliographies; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786613280459

9781283280457

1283280450

9789027284181

9027284180

OCLC:

752327161