Re-conceptualizing foreignness: strategies and implications of translating Chinese calligraphic culture into English since the twentieth century.

This article explores how the English language has (partially) accommodated the culture of Chinese calligraphy since the twentieth century. The notion of cultural translation is used and substantiated as the theoretical and explanative framework of this study. Translators have employed two strategie...

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Publicado en:Perspectives: Studies in Translatology Vol. 28; no. 5; pp. 777 - 792
Autor principal: Song, Ge
Formato: Artículo
Publicado: Taylor & Francis Ltd Oct2020
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