Tokens of Exchange: The Problem of Translation in Global Circulations

Published by Duke University Press 1999

Tokens of Exchange

The Problem of Translation in Global Circulations

Edited by: Lydia H. Liu , Stanley Fish and Fredric Jameson

In the series Post-Contemporary Interventions

https://doi.org/10.1515/9780822381129

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About this book

Theorizes the role of translation in the circulation of ideas and meanings in a global economy through a number of China-related case studies.

Author / Editor information

Lydia H. Liu is Helmut F. Stern Professor of Chinese Studies and Professor of Comparative Literature at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. She is the author of Translingual Practice: Literature, National Culture, and Translated Modernity—China, 1900–1937.

Reviews

“This impressive volume expands the metaphor of translation to encompass a broad spread of transcultural negotiations, thereby opening new possibilities for approaching the language and practices of East Asian modernities. The volume presents exemplary models for demonstrating the historicity of how concepts travel and become caught up within localized sign systems.”—Ann Anagnost, author of National Past-Times: Narrative, Representation, and Power in Modern China

“This volume brilliantly translates ‘translation’ by theorizing it and demonstrating the contingency, historicity and political inflections of the practices that have constituted it. Specific attention to a series of examples from China and the diverse encounters with European knowledges show that the Universal is always particular.”—Paul Rabinow, University of California, Berkeley

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
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Introduction Lydia H. Liu Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
The Question of Meaning-Value in the Political Economy of the Sign Lydia H. Liu Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	13
Part I Early Encounters: The Question of (In)commensurability
Translating the Untranslatable: From Copula to IncommensurableWorlds Roger Hart Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	45
Demystifying Qi: The Politics of Cultural Translation and Interpretation in the Early Jesuit Mission to China Qiong Zhang Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	74
Always Multiple Translation, Or, How the Chinese Language Lost Its Grammar Haun Saussy Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	107
Part II Colonial Circulations: From International Law to the Global Market
Legislating the Universal: The Circulation of International Law in the Nineteenth Century Lydia H. Liu Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	127
Japan’s Engagement with International Terms Alexis Dudden Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	165
Looting Beijing: 1860, 1900 James Hevia Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	192
The Gramophone in China Andrew F. Jones Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	214
Part III Science, Medicine, and Cultural Pathologies
Handmaids to the Gospel: Lam Qua’s Medical Portraiture Larissa N. Heinrich Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	239
Translating Homosexuality: The Discourse of Tongxing’ai in Republican China (1912–1949) Tze-lan Deborah Sang Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	276
Translating Psychiatry and Mental Health in Twentieth-Century China Nancy N. Chen Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	305
Part IV Language and the Production of Universal Knowledge
The Bathos of a Universalism: I. A. Richards and His Basic English Q. S. Tong Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	331
Chinese ‘‘Revolution’’ in the Syntax of World Revolution Jianhua Chen Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	355
The Question of Culture in Global English-Language Teaching: A Postcolonial Perspectiv Wan Shun Eva Lam Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	375
Glossary Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	399
Bibliography Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	411
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	445
Contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	457

Language: English
Publisher: Duke University Press
Pages
- Main content: 464
Illustrations
- Other: 22 b&w photographs

eBook

Published: January 19, 2000
ISBN: 9780822381129