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The Translatability of Revolution
Dear Colleagues,
It is my pleasure to announce the publication of my book, The Translatability of Revolution: Guo Moruo and Twentieth-Century Chinese Culture, by Pu Wang. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Asia Center, 2018. 325 pages, 9 figures. ISBN 9780674987180. Below please find an abstract and the Table of Contents. I look forward to your criticism! Thanks!
Best regards, Pu Wang <pwang at brandeis.edu>
About the Book:
The first comprehensive study of the lifework of Guo Moruo (1892–1978) in English, this book explores the dynamics of translation, revolution, and historical imagination in twentieth-century Chinese culture. Guo was a romantic writer who eventually became Mao Zedong’s last poetic interlocutor; a Marxist historian who evolved into the inaugural president of China’s Academy of Sciences; and a leftist politician who devoted almost three decades to translating Goethe’s Faust. His career, embedded in China’s revolutionary century, has generated more controversy than admiration. Recent scholarship has scarcely treated his oeuvre as a whole, much less touched upon his role as a translator.
Navigating between different genres of Guo’s works, and engaging many other writers’ texts, The Translatability of Revolution confronts two issues of revolutionary cultural politics: translation and historical interpretation. Part 1 focuses on the translingual making of China’s revolutionary culture, especially Guo’s translation of Faust as a “development of Zeitgeist.” Part 2 deals with Guo’s rewritings of antiquity in lyrical, dramatic, and historiographical-paleographical forms, including his vernacular translation of classical Chinese poetry. Interrogating the relationship between translation and historical imagination—within revolutionary cultural practice—this book finds a transcoding of different historical conjunctures into “now-time,” saturated with possibilities and tensions.
Table of Contents
Introduction
I. The Translingual Making of a Chinese Zeitgeist
1. Apostrophe, Translatability, and the Origins of Guo’s Lyrical Politics
2. Translingual Practice and a “Caesura of the Revolution”
3. Poetics, Thematics, and Time: Translating Faust in Revolutionary China
II. Translating Antiquity into Revolution
4. Autobiography and Historiography
5. People’s Democracy in Ancient Costume
6. Modernizing Translations of Classical Poetry
Conclusion, or, Some Final Variations
Bibliography
Index
by denton.2 at osu.edu on July 3, 2018
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