Translating Nations

Auteur

Ye Tian is a scholar in translation studies. He taught and worked at the University of Manchester before becoming a visiting scholar at Durham University.

Résumé
This book critically examines the ways in which translation studies can offer a conceptual framework for understanding and researching international affairs, drawing on examples from China's Belt and Road Initiative.This book will be of interest to scholars in translation studies, cultural studies, international relations, and Asian studies.

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Contents

Acknowledgements

Introduction

0.1 Purpose

0.2 Main thesis of the book

0.3 Chapter overview

Chapter 1 Map-Sketching as an Interdisciplinary Method: Against Map, Linearity, and Mastery

1.1 Map and power: Inspirations from critical cartography

1.1.1 Critical cartography, maps, and power

1.1.2 The map of TS and its problems

1.2 Sketch map as a method: Line, meshwork, and rhizomatic epistemology

1.2.1 Sketch map and lines of a meshwork

1.2.2 Rhizome

1.2.3 Serendipity and translation

1.3 Conclusion

Part I: Culture as Defined by Translation

Chapter 2 Culture as Meaning Making

2.1 Culture as a lifestyle

2.2 Culture as a system

2.3 Culture as signs and meanings

Chapter 3 Culture function and translation

3.1 Culture differentiates

3.1.1 An anthropological account

3.1.2 A sociological account

3.2 Culture assimilates

3.2.1 Cultural assimilation

3.2.2 Deculturation and acculturation

3.2.3 Cultural fusion

3.3 Overview of culture function: Re-examining globalisation, deculturation, and glocalisation

3.3.1 Globalisation as cosmopolitanism

3.3.2 Globalisation as deculturation

Entanglement 1: Culture and Translation

Part II: Soft Power, Nation Branding, and Translation

Chapter 4 Power and Translation

4.1 Defining power

4.2 Soft power and translation

4.2.l Culture as the resource for soft power

4.2.2. Instruments of soft power

4.2.3 Overview: soft power and translation

Chapter 5 Nation Branding as Translation

5.1 Constructability of national identity

5.2 Branding

5.3 Nation branding

5.3.1 Nation branding compared with commercial branding

5.3.2 Nation branding conveying national identity: Nation branding as touching

5.3.3 Soft power as a resource for nation branding: Nation branding as communication and development

Entanglement 2: Translation, Power, and Branding

Part III: China's Nation Branding as Translation

Chapter 6 Introduction to the BRI: A Geo-Economic, Geo-Political, Geo-Cultural, or Interconnective Initiative?

6.1 The BRI as a geo-economic initiative

6.2 The BRI as a geo-political initiative

6.3 The BRI as a geo-cultural initiative

6.3.1 The BRI and the concept of He: The peace-building and interconnectivity outlook of the BRI

6.3.2 The BRI as eco-translation

Chapter 7 The What Question: Framing, Reframing, and Stereotypes

7.1 Translation as framing

7.2 Framing in nation branding

7.2.1 Framing as stereotyping

7.2.2 Framing as selecting information

7.2.3 Framing in the BRI: Framing history as an example

7.3 Conclusion: Framing the Silk Road as translatio studii et imperii

Chapter 8 The Who Question: Translation and Identity in China's Nation Branding

8.1 Self and otherness

8.2 The self and otherness in TS

8.3 The self and otherness for China

8.3.1 A philosophical exploration

8.3.2 An anthropological exploration

8.4 The self and otherness in BRI branding

8.4.1 From the periphery to the centre

8.4.2 Who is allowed to translate?

8.5 Conclusion: Choose translators with otherness in mind

Chapter 9 The How Question: How do Nations Communicate their Brands to Others?

9.1 Development communication: An overview

9.1.1 Empowerment

9.1.2 Participatory development

9.2 Development communication and nation branding

9.3 Development communication in the BRI

9.3.1 China's communication for development: The case of Confucius Institute

9.3.2 China's communication about development

9.3.3 China's communication of development

9.4 Conclusion: Development translation

Entanglement 3: Who, what, and how to brand a nation from a translational perspective

Chapter 10 Translation Studies as Knowledge, Method, and Meta-Discipline

10.1 Revisiting research questions

10.1.1 Translation as connection

10.1.2 Translation as differentiation and assimilation

10.1.3 Translation as criticism of authority

10.1.4 Translation as a process rather than a product

10.2 Implications

10.2.1 Translation knowledge

10.2.2 Translation as a method

10.2.3 TS as a meta-discipline

10.3 Potential for future research

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