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- Offers a balanced and dispassionate analysis of a range of sources such as archives, personal interviews and personal memoirs of interpreters working in violent conflict zones
- Traces the social trajectory of the interpreters who worked within China during the Second Sino-Japanese War
- Argues that interpreting history in China has been simplified and idealized to fit the larger cultural discourse of nationalism
Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in Languages at War (PASLW)
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Table of contents (6 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
Authors and Affiliations
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Department of Modern Languages, University of Exeter, Exeter, United Kingdom
Ting Guo
About the author
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Surviving in Violent Conflicts
Book Subtitle: Chinese Interpreters in the Second Sino-Japanese War 1931–1945
Authors: Ting Guo
Series Title: Palgrave Studies in Languages at War
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-46119-3
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2016
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-46118-6Published: 18 October 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-46119-3Published: 23 September 2016
Series ISSN: 2947-5902
Series E-ISSN: 2947-5910
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 200
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations
Topics: Translation, Asian History, History of Military, Modern History, Translation Studies