'To translate' means 'to exchange'?: A new interpretation of the earliest Chinese attempts to define translation ('fanyi')

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Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 27-48

  Cheung, Martha P Y ^a  

^a HONG KONG BAPTIST UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

'Exchange'; Chinese discourse on translation; Fanyi'; Ideology; Metaphors of translation

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EID: 34248715766     PISSN: 09241884     EISSN: 15699986     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1075/target.17.1.03che     Document Type: Article

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