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200 10$aInterpreters in early imperial China /$fRachel Lung
205   $a1st ed.
210   $aAmsterdam ;$aPhiladelphia $cJohn Benjamins Pub. Co.$d2011
215   $a1 online resource (199 p.)
225 1 $aBenjamins translation library (BTL),$x0929-7316 ;$vv. 96
300   $aDescription based upon print version of record.
311   $a90-272-2444-7 
320   $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
327   $aInterpreters 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 China
327   $a8. 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; Index
330   $aThis 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 C
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