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Translating Early Modern China by Carla Nappi, Hardcover | Indigo Chapters

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Translating Early Modern China by Carla Nappi, Hardcover | Indigo Chapters
Translating Early Modern China by Carla Nappi, Hardcover | Indigo Chapters

Indigo

Translating Early Modern China by Carla Nappi, Hardcover | Indigo Chapters

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The history of China, as any history, is a story of and in translation. Translating Early Modern China tells the story of translation in China to and from non-European languages and Latin between the fourteenth and the nineteenth centuries, and primarily in the Ming and Qing dynasties. Eachchapter finds a particular translator resurrected from the past to tell the story of a text that helped shape the history of translation in China. In Chinese, Mongolian, Manchu, Latin, and more, these texts helped to make the Chinese language what it was at different points in its history. Thisvolume explores what the form of an academic history book might look like by playing with fictioning as part of the historian's craft. The book's many stories - of glossaries and official Ming translation bureaus, of bilingual Ming Chinese-Mongolian language primers, of the first Latin grammar ofManchu, of a Qing Manchu conversation manual, of a collection of Manchu poems by a Qing translator - serve as case studies that open out into questions of language and translation in China's past, of the use of fiction as a historian's tool, and of the ways that translation creates language. | Translating Early Modern China by Carla Nappi, Hardcover | Indigo Chapters

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