Research Centre for Translation @ CUHK

Asian Translation Traditions Series Volume III

Translation and Modernizatin in East Asia
in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries

Edited by Lawrence Wang-chi Wong

ISBN 978-988-237-051-7

Table of contents
Acknowledgements		ix
Introduction Lawrence Wang-chi WONG		xi
The Meiji Government's Strategic Deployment of Non-Fiction Translation as a Vehicle of Modernization Judy WAKABAYASHI		1
Translated Modernity and Gender Politics in Colonial Korea Hyaeweol CHOI		31
Rejuvenating the Nation: Translation, Nationalism, and the Establishment of Children's Literature in Korea in the Early Twentieth Century Theresa HYUN		71
The Project of the Modernization of Chinese Historiography Hans KÜHNER		91
Translating Authority: In Search of Commensurability between Tianxia World Order and Western Sovereignty Maria Adele CARRAI		131
"Entrance into the Family of Nations": Translation and the First Diplomatic Missions to the West, 1860s-1870s Lawrence Wang-chi WONG		165
Civilization in Transformation: Liang QIchao's Theory and Practice of Translation, 1890s-1920s Satoru HASHIMOTO		219
The First Translations of the Italian Literary Avant-Garde Movement in the Chinese Press at the Beginning of the Twentieth Century Alessandra BREZZI		253
World of Fiction, Fiction of the World: The Butterfly Translation of Modernity in Story World Magazine John Christopher HAMM		279
Negotiating Chinese Modernity through the Translation of Tears: Two "Foreign" Tragic Love Stories from Early Twentieth-Century China Yun ZHU		307
From "Geschäftiger Geist" to "Zeitgeist": On Guo Moruo's Translation of Goethe's Faust Pu WANG		341
Contributors		377