10 December 2019, Volume 3 Issue 2

    

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  晚清譯家吳檮的「對譯」實踐與文體風格

  Yan Wu

  Journal of Translation Studies. 2019, 3(2): 1-32.

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  Wu Tao was an important and mysterious translator in the translation field during the period of the late Qing Dynasty. He only has a few works published, but his translation style is too unique to be neglected. Through chronologically arranging all his existing works, and closely comparing and analyzing them with their Japanese originals, this paper summarizes three important factors that constitute the unique style of Wu Tao’s translation: the incorporation of various elements such as Japanese original typesetting and even punctuation into the translated texts; simulating and recreating the “breathing of the text,” i.e., to imitate the breaking up of the original Japanese sentences as much as possible; maintaining the exact order of the Chinese words. This paper holds that Wu Tao’s translation strategy can be regarded as a practical form of the “translation” method of word-translating, but it does not stop there. This kind of translation method is a product stem from the unique historical situation when the literati in the late Qing Dynasty encountered the Meiji Japanese writing style. It also opens a new possibility for the modern transformation of the vernacular style.
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  「高臨民眾的上頭」— 辛酉劇社《狗底 跳舞》的翻譯與演出

  Jiawei Li

  Journal of Translation Studies. 2019, 3(2): 33-58.

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  On 18 May 1929, Xinyou Drama Society staged Leonid Andreev’s The Waltz of the Dogs, which was translated and directed by Zhu Rangcheng. The choice of the playtext was different from those staged by Shanghai amateur drama groups, so were the translation methods adopted. Zhu Rangcheng expected to educate the audience by showing them real art, so he chose what he thought to be of high artistic value and tried to represent the original in his translation. Referring to several less-used or unknown sources, this article first analyzes the features presented in the production of the play, and then explores the reasons behind and the impact it had on both Xinyou and other amateur drama groups in Shanghai. The production of The Waltz of the Dogs reveals the dynamic and interactive nature of the translation activities on Shanghai stage.
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  兩個世界的對話：《西遊記》的英譯與 《西遊記》的研究

  Xiaofang Wu

  Journal of Translation Studies. 2019, 3(2): 59-91.

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  The research on the English translation of The Journey to the West has received growing attention from the academia over the past ten years or so, with new research results emerging constantly. However, scholars have focused solely on the study of individual translations or comparative analyses of various translations of the novel, and seldom examined the English translation history of The Journey to the West from a diachronic perspective; nor have they compared it to the history of studies on the fiction itself, exploring the interaction between translation and research. This paper will use first-hand archival sources, combine textual analysis with historical contextualization, and integrate the research approaches of different disciplines such as translation studies, literature, history and religion, in order to reveal how the English translation history of The Journey to the West is related to and interacts with its academic history.
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  Beyond Reception Politics of Gibran’s The Earth Gods: A Symptomatic Reading of Two Arabic Translations

  Hisham M. Ali

  Journal of Translation Studies. 2019, 3(2): 93-113.

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  Part of a larger study on the viability and relevance of symptomatic reading practice to the much broader scope of reception theory and translation criticism, this article investigates a range of discontinuities in two Arabic translations of Gibran’s The Earth Gods, one by the Archimandrite Anthony Bashir and the other by Egypt’s Minister of Culture Tharwat Okasha. Putting to work the methodological assumptions of Venuti’s symptomatic reading, instances of religious correctness and (in)determinacy are examined within the framework of reception theory, specifically Fish’s theory of interpretive communities, to explore how texts work upon individuals to create a community and how a community works upon a text to generate meaning. The analysis ends with a discussion of the temporality of the translators’ interventions and the historicity of reception, with a particular focus on the paratextual reviews of the critical establishment as a situational interpretive community. The symptomatic reading offers pointers as to how the translators experimented with the metaphysical system of Gibran.
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  The Organization of Distance: Poetry, Translation, Chineseness. By Lucas Klein

  Reviewed by Thomas J. Mazanec

  Journal of Translation Studies. 2019, 3(2): 115-121.

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  New Directions in Empirical Translation Process Research: Exploring the CRITT TPR-DB. Edited by Michael Carl, Srinivas Bangalore, and Moritz Schaeffer

  Reviewed by Yuxiang Wei

  Journal of Translation Studies. 2019, 3(2): 122-127.

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  Mystifying China’s Southwest Ethnic Borderlands: Harmonious Heterotopia. By Yang Yuqing

  Reviewed by Duncan Poupard

  Journal of Translation Studies. 2019, 3(2): 128-133.

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