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The making of Barbarians : Chinese literature and multilingual Asia / Haun Saussy.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Saussy, Haun, 1960- author.
- Series:
- Translation/transnation.
- Princeton scholarship online.
- Translation/transnation
- Princeton scholarship online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Chinese literature--960-1644--History and criticism.
- Chinese literature.
- Chinese literature--Qing dynasty, 1644-1912--History and criticism.
- Chinese literature--Translations--History and criticism.
- European literature--Translations into Chinese--History and criticism.
- European literature.
- China--Relations--Europe.
- China.
- Europe--Relations--China.
- Europe.
- Genre:
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (193 pages)
- Place of Publication:
- Princeton : Princeton University Press, [2023]
- Language Note:
- In English; some text in Chinese with English translation.
- Summary:
- A groundbreaking account of translation and identity in the Chinese literary tradition before 1850 - with important ramifications for today.
- Contents:
- Cover
- Contents
- Introduction: Intrinsically Extrinsic
- 1. The Nine Relays: Translation in China
- 2. Can the Barbarians Sing?
- 3. The Hanzi wenhua quan: Center, Periphery, and the Shaggy Borderlands
- 4. The Formation of China: Asymmetries in the Writing of History
- 5. Exiles and Emissaries amid Their New Neighbors: The View from the Edge of the World
- Conclusion: Frames, Edges, Escape Codes
- Acknowledgments
- Notes
- Index.
- Notes:
- Previously issued in print: 2022.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed on June 8, 2023).
- ISBN:
- 9780691231969
- 0691231966
- OCLC:
- 1296424555
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