Translating Traumatic Memory of Twentieth-Century China: Diasporic Literary Works of the 1937 Nanjing Massacre and Their Translations

翻译二十世纪中国的创伤记忆：1937年南京大屠杀的流散文学作品及其翻译

• 批准号: 2750477
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: University of Warwick
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Studentship
• 财政年份: 2022
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2022 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=studentship-2750477
• 关键词: Translating; Traumatic; Memory; Twentieth; Century

My project investigates translation and the traumatic memory of twentieth-century China, specificallyaddressing how diasporic literary works and their translations reconstruct and transmit the memory ofthe Nanjing Massacre across borders, cultures, and generations. The Nanjing Massacre, where over300,000 Chinese people died and whose survivors have decreased to 61 today, has enormous andenduring influence not only on Chinese society, but also on East Asia. Existing studies have examinedthe literary memorialisations of traumatic moments in Chinese history, including the Great Famine,Cultural Revolution, and the Tiananmen Square Protests, in a wide range of works by contemporarywriters from mainland China, Taiwan, and Hong Kong through the theoretical lenses of postmodernism,poststructuralism, and postcolonialism (Yang 2002; Berry 2011, 2016; Feng 2017; Hillenbrand 2017,2020). Comparatively, my project offers the first investigation of the interconnections betweentranslation, contemporary Chinese diasporic literature, and the memory of the Nanjing Massacre, whichwill not only shed important light on our comprehension of the interlingual and cross-cultural dimensionsof trauma writing and memory formation, but also bring greater reflection on the interweaving of Chinesehistory, memory, and representation.I will offer a comparative textual analysis drawing on an interdisciplinary framework underpinned bySusan Bassnett's conception of 'translation as remembering' (2003, 2011) and Bella Brozki's argumentsabout 'translation as a kind of critical and dynamic displacement' and 'critical processual translation'(2007). Specifically, I will examine different Chinese translations of Iris Chang's The Rape of Nanking(1998, 2005, 2007, 2013, 2015) to elaborate how retranslation rebuilds and transmits the memory of theMassacre across generations, and examine its Japanese and Korean translations to explore howtranslation reframes the memory of the Massacre in different political, social, and cultural contexts. I willalso compare the Chinese translation of Shouhua Qi's When the Purple Mountain Burns with its Englishoriginal to investigate how self-translation informs the formation of massacre memories. This work will becompleted in the second year of my PhD (2022/2023). Then I will explore trans-medial translation as avector transmitting trauma memory by examining the English translation and film and TV adaptations ofGeling Yan's The Flowers of War. Beyond the study of translated texts, I will adopt the metaphoricalconcept of translation to approach how diasporic literature as a form of translation transmits andreconstructs the memory of the Massacre overseas by examining cultural hybridity and exophonicwriting in Ha Jin's Nanjing Requiem and Hong Zheng's Nanjing Never Cries. These tasks will be finished inthe third year (2023/2024)

我的项目调查了二十世纪中国的翻译和创伤记忆，特别是在跨国，文化和世代相传的散居文学及其翻译如何重建散居文学及其翻译的记忆。南京大屠杀（Nanjing Massacre）在那里有超过300,000名中国人死亡，其幸存者今天减少到了61岁，不仅对中国社会，而且对东亚都具有巨大的影响。现有的研究研究了中国历史上创伤时刻的文学纪念活动，包括大饥荒，文化大革命和蒂安曼广场抗议活动，在中国大陆，台湾和香港的当代著作人的广泛作品中，通过后现代主义，后结构主义，结构性的2017年（Yang 2016，Yang 2002，Yang 2002; Hillenbrand 2017,2020）。相比之下，我的项目对互连，当代中国侨民文献以及对南京大屠杀的记忆进行了首次调查，这不仅为我们对互相创伤写作和记忆形成的跨性别和跨文化层面的理解提供了重要的理解，还可以使中国的分析能够进行分析，并为中国的内部进行分析，并为中国的内部进行分析。借鉴了由巴斯奈特（Bassnett）的跨学科框架（2003，2011）和贝拉·布罗兹基（Bella Brozki）的论点“翻译为一种关键而动态的流离失所”和“关键的过程翻译”（2007年）。 Specifically, I will examine different Chinese translations of Iris Chang's The Rape of Nanking(1998, 2005, 2007, 2013, 2015) to elaborate how retranslation rebuilds and transmits the memory of theMassacre across generations, and examine its Japanese and Korean translations to explore howtranslation reframes the memory of the Massacre in different political, social, and cultural contexts.我将紫色山燃烧的英国式燃烧以调查自我翻译如何使大屠杀记忆的形成方式进行比较，比较了shouhua Qi的中文翻译。这项工作将在我的博士学位的第二年（2022/2023）中成为现实。然后，我将通过研究英语翻译，电影和电视改编的《 Yan's The Flowers of War of War of War of Flowers of Flowers of the Flowers of the Flowers of the Flowers of Flowers of the Flowers》中，探索跨外科翻译。除了研究翻译文本的研究外，我还将采用翻译的隐喻概念来处理流离失所文学作为翻译的一种形式，并通过检查Ha Jin's Nanjing Requiem和Hongenjeng's Nanjing的文化杂种和外生写作，通过研究文化杂种和外生作用，通过研究文化杂种和外生作用来弥补海外大屠杀的记忆。这些任务将在第三年（2023/2024）完成