Jan van der Putten

Steeds meer drukt China zijn stempel op de wereld. Machthebber Xi Jinping heeft zich ten doel gesteld China wereldleider te maken en is hard op weg die ambitie te verwezenlijken. Voor de Chinezen is dat niets nieuws: hun heerser zwaait sinds een paar duizend jaar de scepter over ?alles onder de hemel? en China vormt het centrum van de wereld. Het wereldleiderschap is als een natuurwet: de oudste beschaving, de meeste inwoners en weldra de grootste economie.0Het Westen heeft lang gedacht dat het Chinese communisme niet te verenigen viel met de noodzakelijke modernisering. Ongetwijfeld omdat wij ons hardnekkig als de maat der dingen beschouwen. In 'Het centrum van de wereld' gaat Jan van der Putten diep in op de taaie misvattingen in het Westen over China. Kennis die hard nodig is om het uitdijende imperium tegemoet te treden.

Het centrum van de wereld. Hardnekkige westerse misvattingen over China

Ronit Ricci

The field of translation studies was largely formed on the basis of modern Western notions of monolingual nations with print-literate societies and monochrome cultures. A significant number of societies in Asia – and their translation traditions – have diverged markedly from this model. With their often multilingual populations, and maintaining a highly oral orientation in the transmission of cultural knowledge, many Asian societies have sustained alternative notions of what ‘text’, ‘original’ and ‘translation’ may mean and have often emphasized ‘performance’ and ‘change’ rather than simple ‘copying’ or ‘transference’. The contributions in Translation in Asia present exciting new windows into South and Southeast Asian translation traditions and their vast array of shared, inter-connected and overlapping ideas about, and practices of translation, transmitted between these two regions over centuries of contact and exchange. Drawing on translation traditions rarely acknowledged within translation studies debates, including Tagalog, Tamil, Kannada, Malay, Hindi, Javanese, Telugu and Malayalam, the essays in this volume engage with myriad interactions of translation and religion, colonialism, and performance, and provide insight into alternative conceptualizations of translation across periods and locales. The understanding gained from these diverse perspectives will contribute to, complicate and expand the conversations unfolding in an emerging ‘international translation studies’.

Theories, Practices, Histories

Translation in Asia

Mary Kilcline Cody

This book brings together a group of international scholars, inspired by the scholarly perspective of Australian philologist Ian Proudfoot, who look at calendars and time, royal myths, colonial expeditions, printing, propaganda, theater, art, Islamic manuscripts, and many more aspects of Malayan history.

Lost Times and Untold Tales from the Malay World

Monika Arnez

Edwin P. Wieringa

This volume is the result of a conference held in October 2015 in connection with the Frankfurt Book Fair discussing developments that are considered important in contemporary Indonesian cultural productions. The first part of the book reflects on the traumatic experiences of the Indonesian nation caused by a failed coup on October 1, 1965. In more general theoretical terms, this topic connects to the field of memory studies, which, in recent decades, has made an academic comeback. The focus of the chapters in this section is how certain, often distressing, events are represented in narratives in a variety of media that are periodically renewed, changed, rehearsed, repeated, and performed, in order to become or stay part of the collective memory of a certain group of people. The second part of the book explores how forces of globalisation have impacted upon the local and, linguistically surprisingly, rather homogeneous cultural productions of Indonesia. The main strands of inquiry in this second section are topics of global trends in religion, responses to urban development, the impact of popular literary developments, and how traditions are revisited in order to come to terms with international cultural developments.

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