Books by JAT members
Books by JAT members
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Asian Translation Traditions
By Eva Hung and Judy Wakabayashi (eds). Manchester, UK: St. Jerome Publishing (2005). Translation Studies, one of the fastest developing fields in the humanities since the early 1980s, has so far been Euro-centric both in its theoretical explorations and in its historical grounding. One of the major reasons for this is the unavailability of reliable data and systematic analysis of translation...
Decentering Translation Studies: India and Beyond
By Judy Wakabayashi and Rita Kothari (eds). Amsterdam: John Benjamins (2009) This book foregrounds practices and discourses of ‘translation’ in several non-Western traditions. Translation Studies currently reflects the historiography and concerns of Anglo-American and European scholars, overlooking the full richness of translational activities and diverse discourses. The essays in this book,...
Translation and Translation Studies in the Japanese Context
By: Nana Sato-Rossberg and Judy Wakabayashi (eds). London and New York: Continuum (2012) Japan is often regarded as a 'culture of translation'. Oral and written translation has played a vital role in Japan over the centuries and led to a formidable body of thinking and research. This is rooted in a context about which little information has been available outside of Japan in the past. The...
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The Charge
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The Story of the Roman People (vols. II, V, and VII)
Author: Nanami Shiono (edited by Ronald Dore) Translator: Ian MacDonald Shinchosha Publishing Co., Ltd., May 2014 The Greeks surpassed them in learning, the Celts in bravery, the Germans in strength, the Etruscans in technology, and the Carthaginians in commerce… But it was the Romans who built the greatest empire the world has ever seen. Already a bestseller in China, Korea and Japan,...
Tales of the Ghost Sword
Author: Hideyuki Kikuchi Translator: Ian MacDonald Thames River Press, September 2013 (ISBN: 978-0-8572-8127-2) From Japan’s “master of horror,” these historical tales of the supernatural depict the pathos of lower-class samurai (whose lives echo the despair felt by the contemporary Japanese “salaryman”) at a time when swordsmanship was less relevant than practical skills like accountancy....