03260nam 2200613 a 450 991045657580332120200520144314.01-283-28045-0978661328045990-272-8418-0(CKB)2550000000047263(EBL)765841(OCoLC)752327161(SSID)ssj0000538021(PQKBManifestationID)12178093(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000538021(PQKBWorkID)10556841(PQKB)10454646(MiAaPQ)EBC765841(Au-PeEL)EBL765841(CaPaEBR)ebr10495878(CaONFJC)MIL328045(EXLCZ)99255000000004726320110623d2011 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrInterpreters in early imperial China[electronic resource] /Rachel LungAmsterdam ;Philadelphia John Benjamins Pub. Co.20111 online resource (199 p.)Benjamins translation library (BTL),0929-7316 ;v. 96Description based upon print version of record.90-272-2444-7 Includes bibliographical references and index.Interpreters in Early Imperial China; Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; Table of contents; Preface; Introduction; Acknowledgments; Chronology; 1. Perceptions of translating / interpreting in first-century China; 2. Bridging language barriers in encounters with China in sixth-century Asia; 4. Translation officials in Tang China (618-907); 5. Interpreters and archival records of foreign contacts of imperial China; 6. Interpreters and the writing of histories about interlingual encounters; 7. Interpreters as consultants in historiography in eighth-century China8. Interpreters and the making of the Kirghiz Memoir and Kirghiz accounts9. Oral translators in outbound diplomatic correspondence; 10. Sogdian interpreters in Tang China: An issue of loyalty; Conclusion; Appendix: The thirteen letters and the two exceptions; Bibliographies; IndexThis monograph examines interpreters in early imperial China and their roles in the making of archival records about foreign countries and peoples. It covers ten empirical studies on historical interpreting and discusses a range of issues, such as interpreters' identities, ethics, non-mediating tasks, status, and relations with their patrons and other people they worked with. These findings are based on critical readings of primary and secondary sources, which have rarely been utilized and analyzed in depth even in translation research published in Chinese.Although this is a book about CBenjamins translation library ;v. 96.TranslatorsChinaTranslating and interpretingElectronic books.TranslatorsTranslating and interpreting.418/.020951Lung Rachel895067MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910456575803321Interpreters in early imperial China1999811UNINA