Routledge Handbook of East Asian Translation / edited by Ruselle Meade, Claire Shih, and Kyung Hye Kim.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Meade, Ruselle, editor.

Shih, Claire, editor.

Kim, Kyung Hye (Professor of translation studies), editor.

Series:

Routledge studies in East Asian translation.

Routledge Studies in East Asian Translation Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Translating and interpreting--East Asia.

Translating and interpreting.

East Asian literature--Translations--History and criticism.

East Asian literature.

Genre:

Essays.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (408 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, England ; New York, NY : Routledge, [2025]

Summary:

Routledge Handbook of East Asian Translation showcases new research and developments in translation studies within the East Asian context.

Contents:

Cover

Half Title

Series

Title

Copyright

Contents

List of Contributors

Introduction

Part 1 Intra-Asian Encounters

1 The Translator as Transnational Activist: Hari Prasad Shastri and Inter-Asian Cooperation in 1920s Shanghai

2 Audiovisual Translation and Queer Media in China: From Thai Soap Operas to Thai Boys' Love Series

3 Living Between Chinese and Japanese: The Space of Translation and Translanguaging in Yang Yi's Works

4 Translatability and the Politics of Multilingualism: The Discourse on Chinese-Manchu Translation in the Eighteenth Century

Part 2 Minority and Minoritized Translation

5 A Double-Edged Sword: Indigenous Translation Under Colonization in Taiwan

6 On the Erased Details of Taiwan Indigenous Literature in Translation: A Survey of World Literature

7 Literary Translation as Re-creation in Postwar Japan: Feminist Agency and Intertextuality in Representative Works by Contemporary North American Black Women Writers, 1981-1982

8 Zainichi (Koreans in Japan) Literature: Nationalist Neglect, Ethnic Misrecognition, Political Legitimacy, and Onomastic Recalcitrance

Part 3 Beyond Interlingual Translation

9 Pop Culture Translations in Graphic Art: Calamitous Manga

10 Murakami Haruki's Picture Book Translations and Retranslations

11 Beyond Rewording: Translation Techniques and Paratextual Elements in Japanese Intralingual Translations

12 The Politics and Poetics of Theatre Translation in Taiwan: On the Translation and Adaptation of Jonathan Dove's The Monster in the Maze

Part 4 Identity, Ideology, and Censorship

13 Legitimizing the Public Narrative of the Regime: Forewords in Literary Translation in North Korea

14 Translation and Nation Building in Korea's Liberation Period (1945-1950).

15 The Manipulative and Manipulated Roles of Translators/Interpreters in Colonial Taiwan: From Perspectives of Pseudotranslation and Pseudointerpreting

16 Translation Politics and Terminology in University Regulations

17 Japanese Retranslations in the Twentieth and Twenty-first Centuries: Between Heteronomy and Autonomy toward the West

18 Censor Me If You Can: Digital Authoritarianism, Translation, and the Viral Reproduction of a COVID-19 News Story on Chinese Social Media

19 A Brief History of Anime Censorship in the United States, México and Costa Rica: Reception and Adverse Reactions

Part 5 Histories of Translation in East Asia

20 The Many Lives of the Shan Hai Jing: Reinterpretation by Jesuit Translators of The Classic of Mountains and Seas

21 Professional Interpreters and Translators in Early Modern Japan: Commonalities and Differences

22 European Languages through Sino-Japanese Looking Glasses? Ōbun kundoku in Japanese Translation History (Late Eighteenth to Early Twentieth Centuries)

23 Japanese Vernacular Glossing of Sinitic Buddhist Texts: Ninth-Century Narrative Techniques and a Vivid Translation of a Parable of Self-Sacrifice

Part 6 Voices from the Field

24 Current Status and Issues of Community Interpreting in Japan: Local Efforts and the Remaining Challenges

25 Korean Literature: Translators, and Translations into English

Index.

Notes:

Includes index.

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Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781040107515

1040107516

9781040107454

1040107451

9781003251699

1003251692

OCLC:

1442197543