Research Centre for Translation @ CUHK

Asian Translation Traditions Series:

Translation and Global Asia

Edited by
Uganda Sze-pui Kwan and Lawrence Wang-chi Wong

ISBN 978-962-996-608-9

Table of contents
Acknowledgements		ix
Introduction Uganda Sze-pui KWAN		xi
Disembodiment and Dissemination: The Chinese Factor
Japanese Poetry in Chinese Translation from the Ming Period Joshua FOGEL		3
Translation and Sinicization: Xiaojing Translation in Tuoba Wei and Mongol Yuan Jae-ho SHIN		31
“Chouban yiwu” (Handling the Affairs of the Barbarians): Translators in the Translation History of the Eighteenth to Nineteenth Century China Lawrence Wang-chi WONG		55
Cultural Divergence and Assimilation through Translation
“What’s in a Name?” North Korean Literary Translators and the Appropriation of Foreign Culture from the Late 1940s to the Mid-1960s, the Case of Im Hak-Su Theresa HYUN		87
*Tinio Translating: May Katwiran Ba?* Corazon D. VILLAREAL		107
Translating the Foreign into the Local: The Cultural Production and Canonization of Buddhist Texts in Imperial Tibet Georgios T. HALKIAS		143
Navigating and Negotiating Cultural Space through Literary Translation
Habitations of Resistance: The Role of Translation in the Creation of a Literary Public Sphere in Kerala E. V. RAMAKRISHNAN		169
Russian Literature in Marathi Polysystem: In the Colonial and Neocolonial Context Megha PANSARE		183
The Emerging Literariness: Translation, Dynamic Canonicity and the Problematic Verisimilitude in EarlyThai Prose Fictions Phrae CHITTIPHALANGSRI		207
(De)Colonialization and Elite Collusion
“Incest Performed”: The Neocolonial Perversion of Translation in Malaysia Nazry BAHRAWI		243
Transnational Mobility, Translation, and Transference: The Cultural Identities of British Interpreters in Two Colonial Asian Cities (1840–1880) Uganda Sze-pui KWAN		265

Contributors		301