Lydia H. Liu is Helmut F. Stern Professor of Chinese Studies at the University of Michigan.
What is lost in translation may be a war, a world, a way of life. A unique look into the nineteenth-century clash of empires from both sides of the earthshaking encounter, this book reveals the connections between international law, modern warfare, and comparative grammar--and their influence on the shaping of the modern world in Eastern and Western terms.
The Clash of Empires brings to light the cultural legacy of sovereign thinking that emerged in the course of the violent meetings between the British Empire and the Qing Dynasty (1644-1911). Lydia Liu demonstrates how the collision of imperial will and competing interests, rather than the civilizational attributes of existing nations and cultures, led to the invention of "China," "the East," "the West," and the modern notion of "the world" in recent history. Drawing on her archival research and comparative analyses of English--and Chinese--language texts, as well as their respective translations, she explores how the rhetoric of barbarity and civilization, friend and enemy, and discourses on sovereign rights, injury, and dignity were a central part of British imperial warfare. Exposing the military and philological--and almost always translingual--nature of the clash of empires, this book provides a startlingly new interpretation of modern imperial history.
语词的冲突绝非小事,它凝聚和反映的是两个帝国之间的生死斗争,一边是日趋衰落的大清国,另一边是蒸蒸日上的大英帝国。谁拥有对“夷”这个汉字的最后的诠释权,谁就可以踌躇满志地预言这个国家的未来。 ——刘禾 语言文字只是黑暗世界的一盏灯,产生实际塑造作用的大部...
评分 评分越来越觉得,美国学者弗雷德里克•詹姆逊提出的“政治无意识”是个非常重要的概念,意识形态和政治观念的阴影总是深深渗透在文本与叙述当中,防不胜防。而一个学者的锐利就体现在这样的时刻:将那些难以察觉的政治欲望从文本的深井中打捞出来,这些打捞物宛如危险边缘的警戒...
评分这本书的内容是关于“19世纪以来围绕主权想象的跨文化知识传统和话语政治”。与很多近代史研究的著作不同,它的关注点放在了语言等表意符号上的政治碰撞——“跨语际”的主权想象和冲突上面。 该书所着重分析的几个符号事件,如衍指符号“夷/i/barbarian”的创造、《新约全书...
评分刘禾的书研究的是符号在跨语言的过程中发生变化,以观察帝国的碰撞,具体而言是近代中西方的冲突历史。现在我主要读了第一、二、三章。 刘禾说这本书是她在翻阅大量鸦片战争时期的外交公文时获得的灵感。在第二三章中,她选择了一个汉字中的“夷”作为论点,其实用她的方法论,...
有些点真的很厉害啊。非常喜欢The Secret of Her Greatness那一章。
评分没读完没读完,来不及
评分读了导论和第三章。
评分Both Ma Jianzhong and Robert Morrison died in the midst of translation work they were performing for their respective governments during military confrontations.
评分妈妈再也不用担心我的毕业论文啦!
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