Lyida H. Liu is Associate Professor of Chinese and Comparative Literature at the University of California, Berkeley.
Are languages incommensurate? If so, how do people establish and maintain hypothetical equivalences between words and their meanings? What does it mean to translate one culture into the language of another on the basis of commonly conceived equivalences?This study -- bridging contemporary theory Chinese history, comparative literature, and culture studies -- analyzes the historical interactions among China, japan. and the West in terms of "translingual practice." By this term, the author refers to the process by which new words, meanings, discourses, and modes of representation arose, circulated, and acquired legitimacy in early modern China as it contacted/collided with European/Japanese languages and literatures. In reexamining the rise of modern Chinese literature in this context, the book asks three central questions: How did "modernity" and "the West" become legitimized in May Fourth literary discourse? What happened to native agency in this complex process of legitimation? How did the Chinese national culture imagine and interpret its own moment of unfolding?After the first chapter, which deals with the theoretical issues, ensuing chapters treat particular instances of translingual practice such as national character, individualism, stylistic innovations, first-person narration, and canon formation. The author reexamines the works of Lu Xun, Lao She, Shi Zhicun, Ding Ling, Xiao Hong, and others in this light, and concludes by probing the unprecedented conditions under which Chinese writers and critics moved from confidence in the absolute centrality of their civilization to rethinking Chinese literature and culture as one among many national literatures and cultures.Inshort, what does it mean to be Zhongguo ren (men and women of the Middle Kingdom) in terms of what is not of the Middle Kingdom?An appendix lists and classifies over 1,800 loanwords and neologisms introduced into modern Chinese before 1950, the largest annotated collection to be found a
令人惊喜的一本书了! 中西方在二十世纪初的历史性交往的研究落实在语言世纪的领域里,由于中国现代知识传统创始于对西学的翻译、采纳、盗用,中西方交往的研究通常以翻译为起始点。很早就想考察译介过程中,新词语、新意思和新话语的产生和代谢,是如何进行和发生的,这本书中...
评分因对一个小站活动(http://www.douban.com/event/18071412/)表示了兴趣,且收到了主办方寄来的两章电子书,十分感谢。网上办读书讨论不是件十分轻松的事,主办方的热心肠值得称道。该活动要讨论的是一位叫Michael Gibbs Hill 的美国学者新出的著作《林纾公司》(Lin Shu, Inc...
评分跨语际实践刘禾 序 虚拟的等值关系(hypothetical equivalences) “跨语际实践”(translingual practice) 恰恰在批判西方主导论这一行为当中,批评者最终却常常将统治者的权威僵化到这样一种程度,即,非西方文化的能动作用仅仅被简化为单一的可能性:抵抗。 霍米,巴巴《文...
评分When “Western” and Chinese scholars were obsessed with whether the Ming-Qing China had “the” modernity, or “a” different modernity (e.g., the impact-response debates initiated by Fairbank and Levenson, the public sphere discussion based on Habermas wi...
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评分读得非常认真的一本书,中英文各读了一遍。问题意识方面有瑕疵,但不妨碍它是一本好书。
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评分only read the introduction. Very inspirational!
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