Translating Chinese Tradition and Teaching Tangut Culture: Manuscripts and Printed Books from Khara-Khoto

Imre Galambos

Open Access Published by De Gruyter 2015

Translating Chinese Tradition and Teaching Tangut Culture

Manuscripts and Printed Books from Khara-Khoto

Imre Galambos

Volume 6 in the series Studies in Manuscript Cultures

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110453959

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About this book

This book is about Tangut translations of Chinese literary texts. Although most of the extant Tangut material comprises Buddhist texts, there are also many non-religious texts, which are mostly translations from Chinese. The central concern is how the Tanguts appropriated Chinese written culture through translation and what their reasons for this were. Of the seven chapters, the first three provide background information on the discovery of Tangut material, the emergence of the field of Tangut studies, and the history of the Tangut state. The following four chapters are devoted to different aspects of Tangut written culture and its connection with the Chinese tradition. The themes discussed here are the use of Chinese primers in Tangut education; the co-existence of manuscript and print; the question how faithful Tangut translators remained to the original texts or whether they at times adapted those to the needs of Tangut readership; the degree of translation consistency and the preservation of the intertextual elements of the original works. The book also intends to draw attention to the significant body of Chinese literature that exists in Tangut translation, especially since the originals of some of these texts are now lost.

Author / Editor information

Imre Galambos, University of Cambridge, U.K.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	I
Acknowledgements Publicly Available Download PDF	V
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	VII
1. Introduction Publicly Available Download PDF	1
2. Tangut studies: Emergence of a field Publicly Available Download PDF	53
3. Historical and cultural background Publicly Available Download PDF	97
4. Primers in Tangut and Chinese Publicly Available Download PDF	135
5. Manuscript and print Publicly Available Download PDF	177
6. Translation vs. adaptation Publicly Available Download PDF	209
7. Translation consistency Publicly Available Download PDF	257
8. Conclusions Publicly Available Download PDF	279
References Publicly Available Download PDF	285
Index Publicly Available Download PDF	313

(Deutsch)

Languages: English, Chinese
Publisher: De Gruyter
Audience: Scholars, libraries, institutes (esp. Chinese studies, manuscript studies, Tangut studies, Buddhism, Cultural studies)
Pages
- Front matter: 8
- Main content: 318
Illustrations
- Illustrations: 11
- Coloured Illustrations: 8
- Line drawings: 2
- Tables: 2

eBook

Published: November 13, 2015
ISBN: 9783110453959

Hardcover

Published: November 13, 2015
ISBN: 9783110444063