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Vi Howard Choy. They each are translating in several directions, among multiple ideolects: late Qing dynasty poetics, embedded in language controversies stretching back a millennium; nineteenth- and twentieth-century social scientific English; H o n g Kong dialects; and post-Mao standard Chinese, now a globalized lingua franca. Translation required on Choyâs part a stock of philosophic knowledge in several traditions, much library research, and frequent gainsaying between the author and himself, leading, as bilingual readers will see, to the eventual surrender of the many to the one. Beijing film critic Dai Jinhua, whose essay âInvisible Women: Contemporary Chinese Cinema and Womenâs Filmâ appears in the Commentary section, also engages necessarily in complex translation performances. Daiâs references are primarily to Anglophone and Francophone feminisms, which she translates to her location, just as Wang makes situated readings of the science problematic in Europe, China, and Japan. Like him, she is engaged in correlating and combining linguistic differences in order to configure a unified, discursive body of translation. When PRC critics pose epistemological questions like âWhat language did the Chinese use . . . and why?â they join the general project H u Ying delineates in her essay, âThe Translator Transfigured: Lin
positions asia critique – Duke University Press
Published: Mar 1, 1995
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