A Translingual Study of Cultural Translation and Identity Shift──The Example of Liu Ke-Ming(1895~1945)

碩士 === 國立臺灣大學 === 台灣文學研究所 === 101 === The article explores the cross-lingual and multi-cultural translation problems during Taiwan under Japanese rule between 1895 and 1945. The Taiwanese public school teacher, Liu Ke-Ming (1884 ~ 1967) with New/Old Learning is selected as the study object. In addit...

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Main Authors: Shih-Hsun Chien, 簡士勛
Other Authors: Mei-e Hung
Format: Others
Language:zh-TW
Published: 2013
Online Access:http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/57652063199677919978
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Summary:碩士 === 國立臺灣大學 === 台灣文學研究所 === 101 === The article explores the cross-lingual and multi-cultural translation problems during Taiwan under Japanese rule between 1895 and 1945. The Taiwanese public school teacher, Liu Ke-Ming (1884 ~ 1967) with New/Old Learning is selected as the study object. In addition to analyzing his various identities such as Taiwanese, teacher, translator, editor, scholar that presented in his poetry, essays, discourse and other types of poetry or translated writings, the article also analyzes the related activities he engaged in as above mentioned, studies how he responded and positioned the cultural difference between Taiwan and Japan, and the identities transfer in line with the cultural intermediary/mediator role. On the basis, the article sorts the complicated features that Liu Ke-Ming showed when wandering in Taiwan / Japan cultural mixture/dialogue. On the content, the article first points out the complex education background of Liu Ke-Ming’s linguistic competence in New/Old Learning, Japan/ Taiwan culture; follows by the analysis on his educator, traditional scholar, cultural inter-mediator identity to explore his multidimensional activities and then analyzes how he positioned and evaluated the New/Old Learning, Taiwan / Japan, Taiwan / Western culture in a different identity. The article also explores how he treated cultural translating behavior, how he recognized a cultural translator, and what was his purpose for translating. The article also explores issues such as will he alter or adjust the writing in different writing conditions? Or is there something in common? According to writing conditions, how Liu demonstrated the motility and initiative between deferent identities? Through the article, Liu’s ambiguous and confounding translation works are sorted. With the individual case study, the article tries to present the complexity and morphological appearance of cross-lingual and multi-cultural translation during the Japanese colonial period.