Translating Early Modern China. Illegible Cities, Paperback/***

A volume on translation and language in China from the fifteenth to mid-nineteenth centuries. It uses fictional narrative to discuss translators who worked between Chinese and (mostly) non-European languages and studies dictionaries, language primers, grammars, poetry collections, and conversation manuals. Publisher: Oxford University Press Author(s): Prof Carla (University of Pittsburgh, University of Pittsburgh, Mellon Professor of History and Co-Director of the Humanities Center) Nappi Number of pages: 256 Collection: Global Asias Publication date: 2023 Dimensions: 155 x 234 x 17 Cover type: Paperback / softback