List of Contributors

Introduction

Ruselle Meade, Claire Shih, and Kyung Hye Kim

PART 1

Intra-Asian Encounters 9

1 The Translator as Transnational Activist: Hari Prasad Shastri and Inter-Asian Cooperation in 1920s Shanghai

Craig A. Smith

2 Audiovisual Translation and Queer Media in China: From Thai Soap Operas to Thai Boys’ Love Series

Jooyin Saejang

3 Living Between Chinese and Japanese: The Space of Translation and Translanguaging in Yang Yi’s Works

Angela Yiu

4 Translatability and the Politics of Multilingualism: The Discourse on Chinese-Manchu Translation in the Eighteenth Century

Ke Deng and Leo Tak-hung Chan

PART 2

Minority and Minoritized Translation

5 A Double-Edged Sword: Indigenous Translation Under Colonization in Taiwan

Darryl Cameron Sterk

6 On the Erased Details of Taiwan Indigenous Literature in Translation: A Survey of World Literature

Richard Rong-bin Chen

7 Literary Translation as Re-creation in Postwar Japan: Feminist Agency and Intertextuality in Representative Works by Contemporary North American Black Women Writers, 1981–1982

Dan Shao

8 Zainichi (Koreans in Japan) Literature: Nationalist Neglect, Ethnic Misrecognition, Political Legitimacy, and Onomastic Recalcitrance

John Lie

PART 3

Beyond Interlingual Translation

9 Pop Culture Translations in Graphic Art: Calamitous Manga

Roman Rosenbaum

10 Murakami Haruki’s Picture Book Translations and Retranslations

Beverley Curran

11 Beyond Rewording: Translation Techniques and Paratextual Elements in Japanese Intralingual Translations

Paula Martínez Sirés

12 The Politics and Poetics of Theatre Translation in Taiwan: On the Translation and Adaptation of Jonathan Dove’s The Monster in the Maze

Tzu-yu Lin

PART 4

Identity, Ideology, and Censorship

13 Legitimizing the Public Narrative of the Regime: Forewords in Literary Translation in North Korea

Eunjung Lee

14 Translation and Nation Building in Korea’s Liberation Period (1945–950)

Ye Jin Kim

15 The Manipulative and Manipulated Roles of Translators/Interpreters in Colonial Taiwan: From Perspectives of Pseudotranslation and Pseudointerpreting

Pin-ling Chang

16 Translation Politics and Terminology in University Regulations

Yvonne Tsai

17 Japanese Retranslations in the Twentieth and Twenty-first Centuries: Between Heteronomy and Autonomy toward the West

Nicole M. Mueller

18 Censor Me If You Can: Digital Authoritarianism, Translation, and the Viral Reproduction of a COVID-19 News Story on Chinese Social Media

Wangtaolue Guo

19 A Brief History of Anime Censorship in the United States, México and Costa Rica: Reception and Adverse Reactions

Daniel E. Josephy-Hernández

PART 5

Histories of Translation in East Asia 301

20 The Many Lives of the Shan Hai Jing: Reinterpretation by Jesuit Translators of The Classic of Mountains and Seas

Sophie Ling-chia Wei

21 Professional Interpreters and Translators in Early Modern Japan: Commonalities and Differences

Judy Wakabayashi

22 European Languages through Sino-Japanese Looking Glasses? Ōbun kundoku in Japanese Translation History (Late Eighteenth to Early Twentieth Centuries)

Sophie Takahashi and Sven Osterkamp

23 Japanese Vernacular Glossing of Sinitic Buddhist Texts: Ninth-Century Narrative Techniques and a Vivid Translation of a Parable of Self-Sacrifice

John Bundschuh

PART 6

Voices from the Field 365

24 Current Status and Issues of Community Interpreting in Japan: Local Efforts and the Remaining Challenges

Makiko Mizuno

25 Korean Literature: Translators, and Translations into English

Brother Anthony (An Seon Jae)

Index