22.3868, Books: History of Linguistics/Translation: Lung

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From: Paul Peranteau [paul at benjamins.com]
Subject: Interpreters in Early Imperial China: Lung


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Subject: Interpreters in Early Imperial China: Lung

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Title: Interpreters in Early Imperial China 
Series Title: Benjamins Translation Library   96  

Publication Year: 2011 
Publisher: John Benjamins
	   http://www.benjamins.com/
	

Book URL: http://benjamins.com/catalog/btl.96 


Author: Rachel Lung

Electronic: ISBN:  9789027284181 Pages:  Price: Europe EURO 85.00
Electronic: ISBN:  9789027284181 Pages:  Price: U.S. $ 128.00
Hardback: ISBN:  9789027224446 Pages:  Price: U.K. £ 85.00
Hardback: ISBN:  9789027224446 Pages:  Price: U.S. $ 128.00
Hardback: ISBN:  9789027224446 Pages:  Price: Europe EURO 90.10


Abstract:

This monograph examines interpreters in early imperial China and their roles 
in the making of archival records about foreign countries and peoples. It 
covers ten empirical studies on historical interpreting and discusses a range 
of issues, such as interpreters' identities, ethics, non-mediating tasks, 
status, and relations with their patrons and other people they worked with. 
These findings are based on critical readings of primary and secondary 
sources, which have rarely been utilized and analyzed in depth even in 
translation research published in Chinese.Although this is a book about 
China, the interpreters documented are, surprisingly, mostly foreigners, not 
Chinese. Cases in point are the enterprising Tuyuhun and Sogdian 
interpreters. In fact, some Sogdians were recruited as China's translation 
officials, while many others were hired as linguistic and trading agents in 
mediation between Chinese and Turkic-speaking peoples. These 
idiosyncrasies in the use of interpreters give rise to further questions, such 
as patterns in China's provision of foreign interpreters for its diplomatic 
exchanges and associated loyalty concerns. This book should be of interest 
not only to researchers in Translation and Interpreting Studies, but also to 
scholars and students in ancient Chinese history and Sinology in general. 



Linguistic Field(s): History of Linguistics
                     Translation


Written In: English  (eng)
	
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