A cultural history of translation in early modern Japan

• Verfasst von: Clements, Rebekah [VerfasserIn]
• Titel: A cultural history of translation in early modern Japan
• Verf.angabe: Rebekah Clements, University of Cambridge
• Verlagsort: Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Jahr: 2015
• Umfang: xii, 275 pages
• Illustrationen: Illustrationen
• Format: 24 cm
• Fussnoten: Includes bibliographical references: pages 230-261 ; Indexes
• ISBN: 1-107-07982-9
• ISBN: 978-1-107-07982-3
• Schlagwörter: (g)Japan / (s)Übersetzung / (s)Geschichte / (s)Edo-Zeit / (z)Geschichte 1600-1868
• Sprache: eng
• RVK-Notation: EI 4940
• K10plus-PPN: 1620721139

Abstract

"Translation, in one form or another, has been present in all major exchanges between cultures in history. Japan is no exception, and it is part of the standard narrative of Japanese history that translation has played a formative role in the development of indigenous legal and religious systems as well as literature, from early contact with China to the present-day impact of world literatures in Japanese translation. Yet translation is by no means a mainstream area of study for historians of Japan and there are no monograph-length overviews of the history of pre-modern Japanese translation available in any language"--