Liu / Fish / Jameson Tokens of Exchange

The Problem of Translation in Global Circulations
1. Auflage 2000
ISBN: 978-0-8223-8112-9
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 464 Seiten

Reihe: Post-Contemporary Interventions

Theorizes the role of translation in the circulation of ideas and meanings in a global economy through a number of China-related case studies.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Liu, Lydia H.

Fish, Stanley

Jameson, Fredric

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Übersetzungswissenschaft, Translatologie, Dolmetschen
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Sprachwissenschaften

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction/ Lydia H. Liu 1

The Question of Meaning-Value in the Political Economy of the Sign 13

Part I. Early Encounters: The Question of (In)commensurability 45

Part II. Colonial Circulations: From International Law to the Global Market 127

Part III. Science, Medicine, and Cultural Pathologies 239

Part IV. Language and the Production of Universal Knowledge 331

Glossary 399

Bibliography 411

Index 445

Contributors 457

Über Autor(innen)

Lydia H. Liu is Helmut F. Stern Professor of Chinese Studies and Professor of Comparative Literature at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. She is the author of Translingual Practice: Literature, National Culture, and Translated Modernity—China, 1900–1937.