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• catalog abstract "The problem of translation has become increasingly central to critical reflections on modernity and its universalizing processes. Approaching translation as a symbolic and material exchange among peoples and civilizations and not as a purely linguistic or literary matter, the essays in Tokens of Exchange focus on China and its interactions with the West to historicize an economy of translation. Rejecting the familiar regional approach to non-Western societies, the contributors to this volume contend that "national histories" and "world history" must be read with absolute attention to the types of epistemological translatability that have been constructed among various modern languages and cultures. By studying the production and circulation of meaning as value in areas including history, religion, language, law, visual art, music, and pedagogy, the essays consider exchanges between Jesuit and Protestant missionaries and the Chinese between the seventeenth and nineteenth centuries and focus on the interchanges occasioned by the spread of capitalism and imperialism. Concentrating on ideological reciprocity and nonreciprocity in science, medicine, and cultural pathologies, the contributors also posit that such exchanges often lead to racialized and essentialized ideas about culture, sexuality, and nation. The collection then turns to the role of language itself as a site of the universalization of knowledge in the contemplation of such processes as the invention of Basic English and the global teaching of the English language. By focusing on the moments wherein meaning-value is exchanged in the translation from one language to another, the essays highlight the circulation of the global in the local as they address the role played by historical translation in the universalizing processes of modernity and globalization.".
• catalog contributor b11370858.
• catalog created "1999.".
• catalog date "1999".
• catalog date "1999.".
• catalog dateCopyrighted "1999.".
• catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [411]-443) and index.".
• catalog description "The problem of translation has become increasingly central to critical reflections on modernity and its universalizing processes. Approaching translation as a symbolic and material exchange among peoples and civilizations and not as a purely linguistic or literary matter, the essays in Tokens of Exchange focus on China and its interactions with the West to historicize an economy of translation. Rejecting the familiar regional approach to non-Western societies, the contributors to this volume contend that "national histories" and "world history" must be read with absolute attention to the types of epistemological translatability that have been constructed among various modern languages and cultures. By studying the production and circulation of meaning as value in areas including history, religion, language, law, visual art, music, and pedagogy, the essays consider exchanges between Jesuit and Protestant missionaries and the Chinese between the seventeenth and nineteenth centuries and focus on the interchanges occasioned by the spread of capitalism and imperialism. Concentrating on ideological reciprocity and nonreciprocity in science, medicine, and cultural pathologies, the contributors also posit that such exchanges often lead to racialized and essentialized ideas about culture, sexuality, and nation. The collection then turns to the role of language itself as a site of the universalization of knowledge in the contemplation of such processes as the invention of Basic English and the global teaching of the English language. By focusing on the moments wherein meaning-value is exchanged in the translation from one language to another, the essays highlight the circulation of the global in the local as they address the role played by historical translation in the universalizing processes of modernity and globalization.".
• catalog description "Translating the untranslatable : from Copula to incommensurable worlds / Roger Hart -- Demystifying Qi : the politics of cultural translation and interpretation in the early Jesuit mission to China / Qiong Zhang -- Always multiple translation, or, how the Chinese language lost its grammar / Haun Saussy -- Legislating the universal : the circulation of international law in the nineteenth century / Lydia H. Liu -- Japan's engagement with international terms / Alexis Dudden -- Looting Beijing : 1860, 1900 / James Hevia -- The gramophone in China / Andrew F. Jones -- Handmaids to the gospel : Lam Qua's medical portraiture / Larissa N. Heinrich -- Translating homosexuality : the discourse of Tongxing'ai in Republican China (1912-1949) / Tze-Lan Deborah Sang -- Translating psychiatry and mental health in twentieth-century China / Nancy N. Chen -- The Bathos of a universalism : I.A. Richards and his basic English / Q.S. Tong -- Chinese "Revolution" in the syntax of world revolution / Jianhua Chen -- The question of culture in global English language teaching : a postcolonial perspective / Wan Shun Eva Lam.".
• catalog extent "456 p. :".
• catalog hasFormat "Tokens of exchange.".
• catalog identifier "0822324016 (cloth : alk. paper)".
• catalog identifier "0822324245 (pbk. : alk. paper)".
• catalog isFormatOf "Tokens of exchange.".
• catalog isPartOf "Post-contemporary interventions".
• catalog issued "1999".
• catalog issued "1999.".
• catalog language "eng".
• catalog publisher "Durham, NC : Duke University Press,".
• catalog relation "Tokens of exchange.".
• catalog spatial "China.".
• catalog subject "418/.02 21".
• catalog subject "Intercultural communication.".
• catalog subject "P306.2 .T65 1999".
• catalog subject "Translating and interpreting China.".
• catalog subject "Translating and interpreting Social aspects.".
• catalog tableOfContents "Translating the untranslatable : from Copula to incommensurable worlds / Roger Hart -- Demystifying Qi : the politics of cultural translation and interpretation in the early Jesuit mission to China / Qiong Zhang -- Always multiple translation, or, how the Chinese language lost its grammar / Haun Saussy -- Legislating the universal : the circulation of international law in the nineteenth century / Lydia H. Liu -- Japan's engagement with international terms / Alexis Dudden -- Looting Beijing : 1860, 1900 / James Hevia -- The gramophone in China / Andrew F. Jones -- Handmaids to the gospel : Lam Qua's medical portraiture / Larissa N. Heinrich -- Translating homosexuality : the discourse of Tongxing'ai in Republican China (1912-1949) / Tze-Lan Deborah Sang -- Translating psychiatry and mental health in twentieth-century China / Nancy N. Chen -- The Bathos of a universalism : I.A. Richards and his basic English / Q.S. Tong -- Chinese "Revolution" in the syntax of world revolution / Jianhua Chen -- The question of culture in global English language teaching : a postcolonial perspective / Wan Shun Eva Lam.".
• catalog title "Tokens of exchange : the problem of translation in global circulations / edited by Lydia H. Liu.".
• catalog type "text".