English-Chinese Translation as Conquest and Resistance in the Late Qing 1811-1911

1. Front Matter

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2. Introduction

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   Pages 1-10

3. Translation as Conquest and Resistance: A Historical Overview

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   Pages 11-17

4. E-C Translation as Conquest in the Late Qing 1811–1911

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   Pages 19-71

5. E-C Translation as Resistance in the Late Qing 1811–1911

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   Pages 73-101

6. Conclusions

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   Pages 103-105

This book examines how translation facilitated the Western conquest of China and how it was in turn employed by the Chinese as a weapon to resist the invasion in the late Qing 1811-1911. It brings out the question on the role of translation as part of the Western conquest of Late Qing China, with special attention drawn to the deceptions and manipulations in the translation of the Sino-foreign unequal treaties signed during 1840-1911. The readers will benefit from the assertion that translation did not remain innocent, but rather became intermingled with power abuses in the Chinese milieu as well.

• E-C Translation
• Conquest
• Resistance
• the Late Qing
• Postcolonial
• translation studies

• School of Foreign Studies, South China Normal University, Guangzhou, China

  Xiaojia Huang

Xiaojia Huang is Associate Professor and Chair of Department of Translation Studies, South China Normal University. He holds a Ph.D. in translatology from Guangdong University of Foreign Studies. His research interests include literary translation, translation history and Western translation theory. He is a member of the editorial board of English Language Teaching and the author of Translating the Style of the Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: A Functionalist Approach. He has published in journals such as Chinese Translators Journal and East Journal of Translation. He has coauthored a paper in Chinese Translators Journal (January 2016), which has drawn increasing attention to the importance of constructing case base for translation studies.

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