Politics of Language and Translation

Author: Xu Baoqiang, edited by Yuan Weixuan
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Publish Date: 2001-01-01
Features: The politics of language and translation is a blind spot in the thinking of scholars on the mainland. This blind spot does not stem from a lack of knowledge but from a lack of practical experience—when one does not possess an urgent sense of their own problems, knowledge remains external. Perhaps, how to read this collection of essays translated from Western sources actually poses a test to our own sense of urgency. In the face of this collection of essays presented in theoretical form, the easiest mistake is "theoretical reading." If we lack a personal, visceral sense of the issues at hand, then this translated collection would merely be another irrelevant piece of accumulated Western knowledge.