Diverse Voices in Translation Studies in East Asia

Diverse Voices
in Translation Studies
in East Asia

Nana Sato-Rossberg
and Akiko Uchiyama (eds)

PETER LANG

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About the editors

Nana Sato-Rossberg is Chair of the SOAS Centre for Translation Studies and convenor of the MA in Translation at SOAS, University of London. Her current research interests include cultural translation, translation in oral societies and cultures, Japanese translation studies history, and novelization as translation.

Akiko Uchiyama is a Lecturer in the School of Languages and Cultures at the University of Queensland, Australia.

About the book

‘Rich in detail, this is a welcome and well-researched addition to the body of writing on translation in Asia and a must-read introduction for anyone interested in learning more specifically about the diversity of translation practices in historical and contemporary contexts in China, Taiwan, Japan, and North and South Korea.’

–Judy Wakabayashi, Professor of Japanese Translation, Kent State University,
and co-editor of Asian Translation Traditions (2005)

This edited volume showcases essays revolving around diverse translation discourses and practices in China, Korea and Japan. Knowledge transfer and cultural exchanges have historically flourished in East Asia and translation functions as an important social, cultural and political tool to this day. The essays in this volume discuss a wide range of historical and contemporary subjects, each examining distinctive translational activities and foregrounding their cultural significance in their respective time and place. They give a voice to various translational traditions in East Asia, where regional particularities and interlinkages are in effect. The contributors bring together different areas of expertise, such as the history of translation, political activism and translation, literary translation, transcreation and the translation profession.

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Contents

List of Tables

Acknowledgements

Nana Sato-Rossberg and Akiko Uchiyama

Introduction

part iTranslation in Historical and Political Contexts

Peter Kornicki

1 The Origins and Development of Translation Traditions in Pre-Modern East Asia

Sharon Tzu-yun Lai

2 Erasing the Translators: A History of Pirated Translation in Taiwan, 1949–1987

Nana Sato-Rossberg

3 The Emergence of Translation Studies in Japan in the 1970s

part iiWomen Translators and Women in Translation

Akiko Uchiyama

4 Translating as Writing: Wakamatsu Shizuko’s Empathetic Translation as a Creative Literary Art←v | vi→

Theresa Hyun

5 Translating/Transforming Women in North Korea: Traditions, Foreign Correspondences and the Creation of the Socialist Woman in the 1950s and 1960s

part iiiNew Media Translation

Thomas Kabara

6 The Cultures of Professional Subtitling and Fansubbing: Tradition and Innovation in Audiovisual Translation in Japan

Yeong-ae Yamashita

7 A Gender-Based Analysis of the Translation of South Korean TV Dramas in Japan

Xiaochun Zhang and Minako O’Hagan

8 Transcreation in Game Localization in China: A Contemporary Functionalist Approach to Digital Interactive Entertainment

Notes on Contributors

Index←vi | vii→

Tables

Table 2.1: Examples of banned translations. Source: The Catalogue (1964)