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Abstract
The cultural object discussed in this chapter belongs to the Royal Library’s collection of translated Shakespeare plays. This volume of parallel English text and Mandarin translation comprises the work of prominent Chinese translators Zhu Shenghao (1911–44) and Yu Er-chang (1904–84); the former lived in Mainland China until his death, while the latter moved to Taiwan in the mid-twentieth century. This bilingual edition was gifted to Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II in 1997. It reflects the collaboration between these celebrated translators and traces Shakespeare’s historical passage between these Chinese straits. It represents the cultural authority of its Shakespeare translators, and also reveals the ways in which their literary status together with Shakespeare’s canonicity becomes rewritten into narratives of cross-cultural relations. I discuss the role Shakespeare translation plays in exercises of (inter)cultural exchange, examining in particular the signification of this volume set as a device to communicate cultural identity and diplomacy.
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Abstract
The cultural object discussed in this chapter belongs to the Royal Library’s collection of translated Shakespeare plays.
This volume of parallel English text and Mandarin translation comprises the work of prominent Chinese translators Zhu Shenghao (1911–44) and Yu Er-chang (1904–84); the former lived in Mainland China until his death, while the latter moved to Taiwan in the mid-twentieth century.
This bilingual edition was gifted to Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II in 1997.
It reflects the collaboration between these celebrated translators and traces Shakespeare’s historical passage between these Chinese straits.
It represents the cultural authority of its Shakespeare translators, and also reveals the ways in which their literary status together with Shakespeare’s canonicity becomes rewritten into narratives of cross-cultural relations.
I discuss the role Shakespeare translation plays in exercises of (inter)cultural exchange, examining in particular the signification of this volume set as a device to communicate cultural identity and diplomacy.
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