Translation as the Gaze

This book centers on how translation is key to understanding the encounter between China and the West from 1839 to 1949. It explores the ambivalence, anxiety, and narcissism that China manifested when facing the foreign other and conceptualizes this intercultural interaction as a gaze.Drawing on the theories of Sartre, Lacan, and Foucault, the book presents "e;translation as the gaze"e; as an anal...