A Cultural History of Translation in Early Modern Japan by Rebekah Clements

It was the largest conflict of the world of the sixteenth century and involved the largest successful overseas landings in world history by that date. This conflict involved over 500,000 combatants from Japan, China, and Korea up to 100,000 Korean civilians were removed to Japan. The Aftermath project is a large scale attempt to understand the legacy of the Imjin War, also known as the East Asian War of 1592-1598 and Toyotomi Hideyoshi’s Invasions of Korea.

This work takes place within her project funded by the European Research Council, 'The Aftermath of the East Asian War of 1592-1598' (2018-2023).

She is currently working on Korean exiles present in Japan following the Imjin War of 1592-1598. Her research focuses on language, society, and the characteristics of Japanese early modernity, as understood in the broader context of East Asia. Rebekah is a cultural historian of Japan, specializing in the Tokugawa period (1600-1868). From 2015-2018 she held a lectureship and then an associate professorship at Durham University. Following her PhD she was a research associate at the Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, University of Cambridge, working on the Leverhulme-funded project 'Translation and vernacularisation in pre-modern East Asia' (PI: P.Kornicki), and held a junior research fellowship from Queens' College from 2012-2015 where she completed her first monograph, A Cultural History of Translation in Early Modern Japan (Cambridge University Press, 2015). She completed her PhD in East Asian History from the University of Cambridge (Trinity College) in 2011. She completed degrees in law and Asian studies at the Australian National University where she was awarded the University Medal, before obtaining an MA in classical Japanese literature from Waseda University in 2008. Examining the 'crisis translation' of military texts in response to international threats to security in the nineteenth century, Clements also offers fresh insights into the overthrow of the Tokugawa shogunate in 1868.Rebekah Clements is an ICREA at the Autonomous University of Barcelona. By examining a wide range of translations into Japanese from Chinese, Dutch and other European texts, as well as the translation of classical Japanese into the vernacular, Rebekah Clements reveals the circles of intellectual and political exchange that existed in early modern Japan, arguing that, contrary to popular belief, Japan's 'translation' culture did not begin in the Meiji period. Al usar nuestro sitio web, aceptas nuestro uso de cookies.

Usamos cookies para ofrecerte la mejor experiencia posible. This is the first book of its kind, however, to offer a comprehensive survey of the role of translation in Japan during the Tokugawa period, 1600-1868. A Cultural History of Translation in Early Modern Japan por Rebekah Clements, 9781107439160, disponible en Book Depository con envío gratis. The translation of texts has played a formative role in Japan's history of cultural exchange as well as the development of literature, and indigenous legal and religious systems. DescriptionContentsResourcesCoursesAbout the Authors

A Cultural History of Translation in Early Modern Japan by Rebekah Clements