{"product_id":"translingual-practice-lydia-h-liu-9780804725354","title":"Translingual Practice: Literature, National Culture, and Translated Modernitya China, 1900-1937","description":"\u003cp\u003eAre languages incommensurate? If so, how do people establish and maintain \u003ci\u003ehypothetical equivalences\u003c\/i\u003e 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?\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThis 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?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Lydia H. Liu\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0804725357\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780804725354\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Stanford University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/01\/1995\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 496\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.64lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.06h x 6.10w x 1.22d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eIngram Advance\u003c\/i\u003e 10\/01\/1999 pg. 270","brand":"Lydia H. Liu","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43992452071679,"sku":"9780804725354","price":55.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_8910f71a-0d1e-4138-a8da-9382c803ed6a.jpg?v=1683319027","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/translingual-practice-lydia-h-liu-9780804725354","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}