TY - BOOK ID - 78076060 TI - Modern China and the west AU - Peng, Xiaoyan AU - Rabut, Isabelle PY - 2014 SN - 9004270221 9789004270220 9781306493611 1306493617 9789004270237 900427023X PB - Leiden Boston DB - UniCat KW - Translating and interpreting KW - Multicultural education KW - Interpretation and translation KW - Interpreting and translating KW - Language and languages KW - Literature KW - Translation and interpretation KW - Translators KW - Social aspects. KW - Translating UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:78076060 AB - In Modern China and the West: Translation and Cultural Mediation , the authors investigate the significant role translation plays in the act of cultural mediation. They pay attention to transnational organizations that bring about cross-cultural interactions as well as regulating authorities, in the form of both nation-states and ideologies, which dictate what, and even how, to translate. Under such circumstances, is there room for individual translators or mediators to exercise their free will? To what extent are they allowed to do so? The authors see translation as a 'shaping force.' While intending to shape, or reshape, certain concepts through the translating act, translators and cultural actors need to negotiate among multifarious institutional powers that coexist, including traditional and foreign. Contributors include: Françoise Kreissler, Angel Pino, Shan Te-hsing, Nicolai Volland, Joyce C. H. Liu, Huang Ko-wu, Isabelle Rabut, Xiaomei Chen, Zhang Yinde, Peng Hsiao-yen, Sebastian Hsien-hao Liao, and Pin-chia Feng. ER -