An anthology of Chinese discourse on translation
Translation has a long history in China. Down the centuries translators, interpreters, Buddhist monks, Jesuit priests, Protestant missionaries, writers, historians, linguists, and even ministers and emperors have all written about translation, and from an amazing array of perspe…
Anthology of Chinese discourse on translation
Translation has a long history in China. Down the centuries translators, interpreters, Buddhist monks, Jesuit priests, Protestant missionaries, writers, historians, linguists, and even ministers and emperors have all written about translation, and from an amazing array of perspe…
The China of the Ming and Qing dynasties was well populated with foxes, shape-changing creatures who transgressed the boundaries of species, gender and the metaphysical realm. Each section of this book traces a particular boundary violated by the fox and examines how manoeuvres …
"To discuss the supernatural in China is "to talk of foxes and speak of ghosts." Ming and Qing China were well populated with foxes - shape-changing creatures who transgressed the boundaries of species, gender, and the metaphysical realm. In human form, foxes were both immoral s…
Writing Taiwan: a new literary history
Examines the entire span of modern Taiwan literature, since the first decades of the twentieth century. This collection also examines prominent Taiwanese authors and works in genres including poetry, travel writing, and realist, modernist, and post-modern fiction.
This collection is the first volume in English to examine the entire span of modern Taiwanese literature, from the first decades of the twentieth century to the present.
Writing Taiwan: a New Literary History
by Carlos, Rojas, Ban, Wang, Chaoyang, Liao, David Der-wei, Wang, Fangming, Chen, Fenghuang, Ying, Gang Gary, Xu, Joyce C. H., Liu, Kim-chu, Ng, Lingchei Letty, Chen, Michelle, Yeh, Ping-Hui, Liao, Sung-sheng Yvonne, Chang, Xiaobing, Tang, Yomi, Braester
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Writing Taiwan is the first volume in English to examine the entire span of modern Taiwan literature, from the first decades of the twentieth century to the present. In this collection, leading literary scholars based in Taiwan and the United States consider prominent Taiwanese …