Full Description
This book introduces the theory of Medio-translatology. Proposed by Professor Tianzhen Xie, Medio-translatology combines comparative literature with translation studies. It has been influential in Chinese Translation Studies since its emergence in the 1990s and has since generated a myriad of heated discussions and productive applications of the theory in the analysis of translation both as an activity and a product. With ten chapters authored by leading scholars in this area, this book explicates the development and the main theoretical tenets of Medio-translatology in the first part and demonstrates the application of the theory with a number of case analysis of translations by different translators in the second part. As the first and only edited book on Medio-translatology written in English, this volume will also provide a useful window on contemporary translation studies in China.
Contents
1. Medio-translatology and the Latest Development of Translation Studies in China.- 2. Foreign Inspiration and Local Happening: The Chinese Context and Significance of Medio-translatology.- 3. Yijie Xue ( ) or Medio-translatology: A Chinese Approach to Translation Studies.- 4. Devices of Creative Treason as Employed in Translation of the Politically-conflicting Text, the Coming Conflict with China.- 5. Creative Treason as a Key to Medio-translatology: Circulation and Controversies.- 6. Medio-translatology as a Paradigm based on the Introductory Functions of Translations: Xie Tianzhen's Contributions to Translation Studies in China.- 7. Creative Treason as Meaning Production: The Construction of Meaning Tunnels in Lin Shu's Translation.- 8. On Sino-French Literary Relations: Under the Horizon of Medio-translatology.- 9. The Chinese Montesquieu in Yan Fu's Translation of The Spirit of Laws: From the Perspective of Medio-translatology.- 10. On Political Manipulation and Lu Xun's Hard Translation ( ): A Medio-translatology Perspective.- 11. On the Comparative Literature Approach to Translation Studies.
