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Harvard East Asian Monographs 415

The Translatability of Revolution

Guo Moruo and Twentieth-Century Chinese Culture

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ISBN 9780674987180

Publication Date: 08/06/2018

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352 pages

6 x 9 inches

5 halftones, 4 line illustrations

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  • List of Figures*
  • Acknowledgments
  • List of Abbreviations
  • Conventions
  • Introduction
  • I. The Translingual Making of a Chinese Zeitgeist
    • 1. Apostrophe, Translatability, and the Origins of Guo’s Lyrical Politics
    • 2. Translingual Practice and a “Caesura of the Revolution”
    • 3. Poetics, Thematics, and Time: Translating Faust in Revolutionary China
  • II. Translating Antiquity into Revolution
    • 4. Autobiography and Historiography
    • 5. People’s Democracy in Ancient Costume
    • 6. Modernizing Translations of Classical Poetry
  • Conclusion, or, Some Final Variations
  • Bibliography
  • Index
  • * Figures
    • 1. Guo Moruo as a medical student in Kyushu, Japan, 1923
    • 2. Guo Moruo, 1952
    • 3. Goethe’s drawing for Faust’s encounter with the Earth Spirit in the scene “Night,” ca. 1810–12 or 1819
    • 4. Guo Moruo as a commissar of the National Revolution Army during the Northern Expedition, 1927
    • 5. The entry of Aufheben in Cultural Critique, no. 1
    • 6. Guo Moruo’s “Faust chaoyi” in China Times, October 10, 1919
    • 7. Guo Moruo in Japan
    • 8. A chart of the genital totems/pictographs of the two sexes
    • 9. Guo Moruo and Mao Zedong, 1964

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