Sun Yifeng. Translating foreign otherness cross-cultural anxiety in modern China

Babel ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 66 (3) ◽  
pp. 542-547
Author(s):  
Jing Yu
Keyword(s):  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Modern China ◽  
Cultural Anxiety

scholarly journals Between Texts, Beyond Words

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nicoletta Pesaro
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Practices ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Modern China ◽  
Cultural Translation ◽  
Western Literature ◽  
European Languages ◽  
Modern Chinese ◽  
Modern Japan

This volume offers an overview on a variety of intertextual, interdiscursive and cross-cultural practices in the field of translation between Asian and European languages. From a twelth-century Persian poet to a Chinese female novelist of the last century, from the ‘cultural translation’ of Christian texts carried out in pre-modern Japan and modern China, up to the making of the modern Chinese theory of translation based on its encounter with Western literature, the articles collected provide many valuable insights, ensuring a deeper comprehension of the evolving relations between cultures and of the tools adopted by both Asian and European translators on each particular occasion.

Cross-Cultural Anxiety

1989 ◽  
Vol 43 (1) ◽  
pp. 138-139
Author(s):  
Mark G. Field
Keyword(s):  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Cultural Anxiety

Cross-Cultural Anxiety (Book)

1978 ◽  
Vol 42 (1) ◽  
pp. 106-106 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lita Linzer Schwartz
Keyword(s):  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Cultural Anxiety

Review of Cross-Cultural Anxiety, Vol. 2.

1984 ◽  
Vol 29 (5) ◽  
pp. 436-436
Author(s):  
H. Carl Haywood
Keyword(s):  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Cultural Anxiety

Cross-Cultural Anxiety

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Charles D. Spielberger
Keyword(s):  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Cultural Anxiety

Trust, Instruments, and Cross-Cultural Scientific Exchanges: Chinese Debate over the Shape of the Earth, 1600–1800

1999 ◽  
Vol 12 (3) ◽  
pp. 385-412 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pingyi Chu
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Transformation ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Modern China ◽  
Factual Knowledge ◽  
Cultural Resources ◽  
The Earth ◽  
Astronomical Instruments ◽  
Cultural Implications ◽  
Partial Communication ◽  
Chinese Empire

The ArgumentThis paper examines the debate in China over the shape of the earth during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. The main arguments are as follows. First, trust plays an important role in knowledge transmission. Second, partial communication between different woridviews is possible. In the case of the debate over the shape of the earth, partial communication was accomplished by the spread of Western astronomical instruments and calculating tools. Third, such alien concepts as the four elements and the experience of navigation did not serve as effective cultural resources to convince Chinese literati of the sphericity of the earth. Fourth, as a result, the legitimacy of the sphericity of the earth had to be reconstructed in an alien environment. The theory of the Chinese origins of Western learning was fabricated within such a context. Fifth, debate over factual knowledge bears social and cultural implications. Thus the debate over the sphericity of the earth involved not only how the phenomenon could be understood but also how the Chinese empire was to be positioned in the new cultural atlas. Finally, the sphericity of the earth eventually became a matter of common sense for the Chinese largely because of the political and cultural transformation of modern China.

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