Tokens of Exchange
The Problem of Translation in Global Circulations
1st Edition
Published on 19. January 2000
464 pages
978-0-8223-8112-9 (ISBN)
Description
Theorizes the role of translation in the circulation of ideas and meanings in a global economy through a number of China-related case studies.
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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.
Content
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
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
