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Translating early modern china : illegible cities / Carla Nappi.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Nappi, Carla Suzan, 1977- Author.
- Series:
- Global Asias.
- Global Asias
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Chinese language--Translating--History.
- Chinese language.
- Chinese literature--Translations--History and criticism.
- Chinese literature.
- Translating and interpreting--China--History.
- Translating and interpreting.
- China.
- Genre:
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- History.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (257 pages) : illustrations
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford, England ; New York, New York : Oxford University Press, [2021]
- Summary:
- A volume on translation and language in China from the fifteenth to mid-nineteenth centuries. It uses fictional narrative to discuss translators who worked between Chinese and (mostly) non-European languages and studies dictionaries, language primers, grammars, poetry collections, and conversation manuals.
- Contents:
- Cover
- Translating Early Modern China: Illegible Cities
- Copyright
- Contents
- On History and Its Opposites (a Preface)
- On Cities and Their Opposites (an Introduction)
- Cities and Desire
- Cities and Signs
- Thin Cities
- Trading Cities
- Cities and Eyes
- Cities and Names
- Cities and the Dead
- Cities and the Sky
- Hidden Cities
- Notes
- Gathering
- 1: Glossary (1578)
- Tools and Implements
- Heavenly Bodies and Phenomena
- Precious Objects
- Human Affairs
- Colors
- Geography and the Land
- Types of People
- Writing and Records
- Flowers and Trees
- Buildings
- The Human Body
- Cloth and Clothing
- Directions
- Numbers and Counting
- Birds and Beasts
- Food and Drink
- Commonly Used Words
- Time and Calendrics
- 2: Documents (1389/1608)
- 0. (1389) 0. (1608)
- 1. (1389) 1. (1608)
- 2. (1389) 2. (1608)
- 3. (1389) 3. (1608)
- 4. (1389) 4. (1608)
- 5. (1389) 5. (1608)
- 6. (1389) 6. (1608)
- 7. (1389) 7. (1608)
- 8. (1389) 8. (1608)
- 9. (1389) 9. (1608)
- 10. (1389) 10. (1608)
- 11. (1389) 11. (1608)
- 12. (1389) 12. (1608)
- 3: Grammar (1678)
- Letter to the Reader
- The Letters, and How to Pronounce Them
- Nouns
- Pronouns
- Verbs
- Syntax
- The End
- 4: Primer (1730)
- Lesson 1: How to Make Introductions
- Lesson 2: How to Speak with Integrity-Telling Time
- Lesson 3: How to Speak with Integrity-the Voice of a
- and a Ren .
- Lesson 4: How to Get What You Deserve
- Lesson 5: How to Choose Your Friends
- Lesson 6: How to Make and Keep Friends-Writing Letters
- Lesson 7: How to Make and Keep Friends-Kvetching
- Lesson 8: How to Make and Keep Friends-Standing on Ceremony
- Lesson 9: How to Be a Guest and Host
- Lesson 10: How to Move On
- 5: Poems (1848)
- A Song Sung Drunkenly
- A Song Mumbled in My Sleep
- The Dream of Handan.
- On Reading Hukou yusheng
- A Ballad on Lin Xiangru's Returning the Jade to Zhao
- Verses on the Peach Blossom Spring
- A Ballad to Banish Boredom When It's Raining
- Pondering the Past of Lousang Village
- A Speech on the Love of Chrysanthemums
- On Stabbing Yizhihu
- A Rambling Ballad on Wealth
- In Praise of Snow
- An Ode to the Hut of Peace and Joy
- Verses on Chaisang
- Lyrics in Praise of Tobacco
- A Song of Plum Flowers
- Lyrics on Lotus
- Ode to the Fishing Pier
- On Narcissus
- In Praise of Fire
- A Text of Offering to the Beard God
- In Praise of Mad Fun
- A Discourse on Becoming an Immortal
- Dispersal
- Continuous Cities
- Cities and Memory
- Bibliography
- Index.
- Notes:
- Description based on print version record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-189853-8
- 0-19-263626-X
- 0-19-263625-1
- OCLC:
- 1244629911
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