Download or read book Translation and Modernization in East Asia in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries written by Lawrence Wang-chi Wong and published by . This book was released on with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume aims at studying the role played by translation in the modernization process of the East Asian countries. In the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, many people saw the West as a model for modernization and hence modernization in East Asia was more often than not taken as a process of learning from or even imitating the West. In this process, translation played a crucial role, when efforts were made to import Western ideas, knowledge, concepts, and practices. The papers in this volume study and explain the various translation phenomena in the modernization processes of China, Korea, and Japan.