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Wang, Ning and Yifeng Sun (孙艺风), eds. 2008. Translation, globalisation and localisation: a Chinese perspective (Topics in Translation 35). Bristol: Multilingual Matters. 220 pp.

Publication type

Edited volume

Publication language

English

Keywords

Main ISBN

1-84769-053-X

Edition info

ISBN-13: 978-1-84769-053-1 Also reviewed in: Jeremy Munday (2010). “Translation Studies”. #The Year's Work in Critical & Cultural Theory# 18 (1): 221-238.

Abstract

This edited volume offers an anthology of Translation Studies. The essays deal with Translation Studies in a global/local context and from a Chinese perspective. Theoretic topics as globalisation, postcolonial theory, diaspora writing, polysystem theory, and East-West comparative literature and culture studies are discussed.

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Articles in this volume

Ming, Xie. Transvaluing the global: translation, modernity, and hegemonic discourse. 15–30

Dollerup, Cay. Translation in the global-local tension. 31–49

Sun, Yifeng (孙艺风) and Lei Mu (穆雷). Translation Studies in China: a ‘glocalised’ theoretical practice. 50–74

Wang, Ning. On cultural translation: a postcolonial perspective. 75–87

Yanhong, Xu. Toward pluralistic and interdisciplinary approaches: a reflection on Translation Studies in contemporary China. 88–108

Gentzler, Edwin. A global view of Translation Studies: toward an interdisciplinary field. 111–126

Yongguo, Chen. Transgression and appropriation in transnational cultural translation: a deconstructive observation. 127–139

Wang, Dongfeng (王东风). When a turning occurs: counterevidence to polysystem hypothesis. 140–154

Mao, Sihui. Translating popular culture: Feng Xiaogang's film Big Shot's Funeral as a polynuclear text. 155–173

Eoyang, Eugene. English as a postcolonial tool: anti-hegemonic subversions in a hegemonic language. 174–182

Reviewed by

Hegel, Robert E. 2007. Review of Translation, globalisation and localisation: a Chinese perspective. Perspectives 15 (4) : 278–281.

Yau, Wai-ping. 2009. Review of Translation, globalisation and localisation: a Chinese perspective. In Cheung, Martha P. Y., ed. Chinese discourses on translation: positions and perspectives. Special issue of The Translator 15 (2): 444–448.