Duncan Poupard

Broschiertes Buch

A Pictographic Naxi Origin Myth from Southwest China

An Annotated Translation

Beschreibung

This book presents a previously unpublished historical translation of a Naxi manuscript by a Dutch missionary translator, alongside an ambitious new annotated translation providing near-unprecedented detail and information about the world's last surviving "pictographic" script: Naxi dongba.

Autor

Duncan Poupard is Assistant Professor in Translation at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. He is author of Translation/Re-creation: Southwest Chinese Naxi Manuscripts in the West (Routledge, 2021), and has published widely on the Naxi people and their script. See for example "With the power of their forefathers: Kinship between early Tibetan ritualists and the Naxi dongba of southwest China", Revue d'Etudes Tibétaines, October 2020, and "Translation as Logocentric Imperialism", Translation Studies 13:1 (2019).

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Amsterdam University Press
• Seitenzahl: 416
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Oktober 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 168mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 794g
• ISBN-13: 9789087284275
• ISBN-10: 9087284276
• Artikelnr.: 69653940