If Babel Had a Form: Translating Equivalence in the Twentieth-Century Transpacific

by Tze-Yin Teo

"The likeness of form between Chinese and English sentences," writes the American Sinologist Ernest Fenollosa around 1906, "renders translation from one to the other exceptionally easy." If Babel Had a Form asks not if his claim may be true, but what its phantasmic surprise may yet do. In twentieth-century intersections of China and Asia with the United States, translations did more than communicate meaning across politicized and racializing...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1531500196
• ISBN13: 9781531500191
• Release Date: April 2022
• Publisher: Fordham University Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.77 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"