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positions 3: 1 Spring 1995 ogies and produced textbooks that were nearly as popular in the late Qing as his translations. H o w does the foreign Other take shape in language? H o w does this otherness then affect the very medium of its embodiment, in the languageâs own particulars of time and space? H o w does a scholar/translator, steeped in one tradition, who saw his own role very much as a cultural sentinel, imagine the possibility of cultural crossing, the very possibility of translation? These are important questions in the enterprise of cross-cultural interpretation. They will be the questions that underlie my present studya study that looks to the turn of the twentieth century as a precedent to our own current experience of negotiating traditions, in all their shiftiness, and of defining positions, in all their relatedness. Rather than a case of a failed translator who labored in an outdated mode of translation, a historical curiosity of some sort, Lin Shuâs translation is interesting because it is closely tied u p with the cultural crisis of his time. Writing at a time when the last Chinese empire was about to crumble, Lin Shu was inevitably
positions asia critique – Duke University Press
Published: Mar 1, 1995
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