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Living translation : language and the search for resonance in U.S. Chinese medicine / Sonya E. Pritzker

Author
Pritzker, Sonya E.
Published
New York ; Oxford : Berghahn Books, 2014.
Physical Description
1 online resource (ix, 217 pages)
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Contents
The real Chinese medicine -- Ideas about words, and words about ideas -- Living inscription in Chinese medicine -- Interaction in the living translation of Chinese medicine -- Embodied experience in the living translation of Chinese medicine -- Living translation in and into practice.
Summary
Integrating theoretical perspectives with carefully grounded ethnographic analyses of everyday interaction and experience, Living Translation examines the worlds of international translators as well as U.S. teachers and students of Chinese medicine, focusing on the transformations that occur as participants engage in a "search for resonance" with foreign terms and concepts. Based on a close examination of heated international debates as well as specific texts, classroom discussions, and interviews with publishers, authors, teachers, and students, Sonya Pritzker demonstrates the "living transl.
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ISBN
9781782383116 (electronic bk.)
1782383115 (electronic bk.)
1306877903 (electronic bk.)
9781306877909 (electronic bk.)
9781782383109
1782383107
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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