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Tokens of Exchange: The Problem of Translation in Global Circulations Book

Tokens of Exchange: The Problem of Translation in Global Circulations
Tokens of Exchange: The Problem of Translation in Global Circulations, The problem of translation has become increasingly central to critical reflections on modernity and its universalizing processes. Approaching translation as a symbolic and material exchange among peoples and civilizations—and not as a purely linguistic or, Tokens of Exchange: The Problem of Translation in Global Circulations has a rating of 3.5 stars
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  • Tokens of Exchange: The Problem of Translation in Global Circulations
  • Written by author Lydia H. Liu
  • Published by Duke University Press Books, December 1999
  • The problem of translation has become increasingly central to critical reflections on modernity and its universalizing processes. Approaching translation as a symbolic and material exchange among peoples and civilizations—and not as a purely linguistic or
  • Theorizes the role of translation in the circulation of ideas and meanings in a global economy through a number of China-related case studies.
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Introduction1
The Question of Meaning-Value in the Political Economy of the Sign13
Pt. IEarly Encounters: The Question of (In)commensurability
Translating the Untranslatable: From Copula to Incommensurable Worlds45
Demystifying Qi: The Politics of Cultural Translation and Interpretation in the Early Jesuit Mission to China74
Always Multiple Translation, Or, How the Chinese Language Lost Its Grammar107
Pt. IIColonial Circulations: From International Law to the Global Market
Legislating the Universal: The Circulation of International Law in the Nineteenth Century127
Japan's Engagement with International Terms165
Looting Beijing: 1860, 1900192
The Gramophone in China214
Pt. IIIScience, Medicine, and Cultural Pathologies
Handmaids to the Gospel: Lam Qua's Medical Portraiture239
Translating Homosexuality: The Discourse of Tongxing'ai in Republican China (1912-1949)276
Translating Psychiatry and Mental Health in Twentieth-Century China305
Pt. IVLanguage and the Production of Universal Knowledge
The Bathos of a Universalism: I. A. Richards and His Basic English331
Chinese "Revolution" in the Syntax of World Revolution355
The Question of Culture in Global English-Language Teaching: A Postcolonial Perspective375
Glossary399
Bibliography411
Index445
Contributors457


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