Translating Authority: In Search of Commensurability between Tianxia World Order and Western Sovereignty (2018)
In Lawrence Wang-chi Wong (ed.), Translation and Modernization in East Asia in the 19th and Early 20th Century, Hong Kong: Research Centre for Translation and the Chinese University Press, 2017.
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This book discusses how Western ideas, knowledge, concepts and practices were imported, adapted and even transformed into varied contexts in East Asia. In particular, authors in this rich volume focus on the role translation played in the processes of modernization in China, Japan, and Korea in the 19th and early 20th centuries.