Description: In Modern China and the West: Translation and Cultural Mediation, the authors investigate the significant role translation plays in cultural mediation. Transnational organizations that bring about cross-cultural interactions as well as regulating authorities, in the form of both nation-states and ideologies, are under scrutiny.
Review Quotes: "... this volume collects well-researched chapters that reflect the newest scholarship, and in this way it is a meaningful contribution to the field of translation studies and modern Chinese studies."... "For researchers of twentieth-century China-West cultural exchanges and the history of translation in modern China, this book is a must-read, as its chapters are mostly firmly grounded in primary sources and are generally convincing and well-written."
Qian Liu Beijing Normal University Oxford Comparative Criticism & Translation (2014)