European-East Asian borders in translation [electronic resource] / edited by Joyce C.H. Liu and Nick Vaughan-Williams. - Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, N.Y. : Routledge, 2014. - 1 online resource (xiii, 211 p.) - Interventions .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction : translating borders, deconstructing "Europe/East Asia" / Joyce C.H. Liu and Nick Vaughan-Williams -- 1. The figure of translation : translation as a filter? / Naoki Sakai -- 2. The Taiwan question : border consciousness intervened, inverted and displaced / Joyce C.H. Liu -- 3. Knowledge production as "bordering" : practices : historical and political knowledge in the discursive constitution of Taiwanese national identity / Yih-Jye Hwang -- 4. Traversing the dispositif : the dispute over the Diaoyutai Islands revisited / Shu-fen Lin -- 5. Facing the sea, becoming the West : the imagination of maritime nation and discourses of Asia in Japan / Hung Yueh Lan -- 6. Maritime borders and territories : a topological space of exception and the suspicious vessel case in Japan / Hidefumi Nishiyama -- 7. Translating "unity in diversity" : the predicament of ethnicity in China's diaspora politics / Elena Barabantseva -- 8. Wayward great firewall and China's internally displaced grievance / Yuan Horng Chu -- 9. Bordering on the unacceptable in China and Europe : "cao ni ma" and "nique ta mere" / Astrid Nordin.

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Geopolitics--East Asia.
Translating and interpreting--Political aspects.


East Asia--Boundaries.
East Asia--Foreign relations.