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Translating Early Modern China: Illegible Cities - Global Asias Nappi, Prof Carla (University of Pittsburgh, University of Pittsburgh, Mellon Professor of History and Co-Director of the Humanities Center)
Translating Early Modern China: Illegible Cities - Global Asias
Nappi, Prof Carla (University of Pittsburgh, University of Pittsburgh, Mellon Professor of History and Co-Director of the Humanities Center)
A volume on translation and language in China from the fifteenth to mid-nineteenth centuries. It uses fictional narrative to discuss translators who worked between Chinese and (mostly) non-European languages and studies dictionaries, language primers, grammars, poetry collections, and conversation manuals.
224 pages
| Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
| Released | June 8, 2021 |
| ISBN13 | 9780198866398 |
| Publishers | Oxford University Press |
| Pages | 256 |
| Dimensions | 164 × 242 × 19 mm · 557 g |
| Language | English |