Tokens of Exchange

The Problem of Translation in Global Circulations
Herausgeber: Liu, Lydia H

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Produktbeschreibung

"This volume brilliantly translates 'translation' by theorizing it and demonstrating the contingency, historicity and political inflections of the practices that have constituted it. Specific attention to a series of examples from China and the diverse encounters with European knowledges show that the Universal is always particular."--Paul Rabinow, University of California, Berkeley

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 464
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. Januar 2000
• Englisch
• Gewicht: 1002g
• ISBN-13: 9780822324010
• ISBN-10: 0822324016
• Artikelnr.: 42993620

Autorenporträt

Lydia H. Liu is Helmut F. Stern Professor of Chinese Studies and Professor of Comparative Literature at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. She is the author of Translingual Practice: Literature, National Culture, and Translated Modernity—China, 1900–1937.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction/ Lydia H. Liu 1
The Question of Meaning-Value in the Political Economy of the Sign 13
Part I. Early Encounters: The Question of (In)commensurability 45
Part II. Colonial Circulations: From International Law to the Global Market
127
Part III. Science, Medicine, and Cultural Pathologies 239
Part IV. Language and the Production of Universal Knowledge 331
Glossary 399
Bibliography 411
Index 445
Contributors 457