Translation as the critique of modernity: a new perspective on Ku Hung-Ming's translation of Confucian classics.
The current scholarship on Ku Hung-Ming (1857–1928) as a translator and a historical figure has been constrained by identity politics and has viewed his translations and writings as a passive response to the challenge of the Western powers from a Chinese nationalist, or as a process of Ku's identity...
| Publicado en: | Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society Vol. 35; no. 1; pp. 181 - 196 |
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Cambridge University Press
Jan2025
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