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Table of Contents:

• Machine generated contents note: 1. Introduction
• 1.1. Interpreters' Role and Agency in Wars
• 1.2. Loyalty and Identity: Hanjian Interpreters in the War
• 1.3. Interpreter Training in Wars
• 1.4. Bourdieusian Approach to Studies of Wartime Interpreters
• 2. Responsibility and Accountability: Military Interpreters and the Chinese Kuomintang Government
• 2.1. Interpreters and the Changing Field
• 2.1.1. Chinese/Japanese Interpreters
• 2.2. KMT's Military Interpreters during the War
• 2.2.1. Chinese/German Interpreters and Sino-German Cooperation in the 1930s
• 2.2.2. Chinese/Russian Interpreters
• 2.2.3. Chinese/English Military Interpreters
• 2.3. Case Study of University Students as Military Interpreters
• 2.4. Conclusions
• 3. Political Beliefs or Practical Gains?: Interpreting for the Chinese Communist Party
• 3.1. Chinese/Russian Interpreters
• 3.1.1. Comintern Agents and the Students Returned from Russia
• 3.1.2. Speculative Stake: Training Chinese/Russian Interpreters in the 1940s
• 3.2. Unexpected Stake in the Field
• 3.2.1. Visit of Western Journalists and the US Dixie Mission

• 3.2.2. From Interpreters to Diplomats
• 3.3. Conclusions
• 4. Interpreting for the Enemy: Collaborating Interpreters and the Japanese Forces
• 4.1. Hanjian: Collaborating Interpreters
• 4.2. Japanese Recruitment of Chinese Interpreters
• 4.2.1. Japanese-Returned Interpreters
• 4.2.2. Locally Trained Interpreters: Forced Japanese Language Education and Linguistic Habitus
• 4.3. Interpreter Embodiment
• 4.3.1. Fake Interpreters
• 4.3.2. Interpreters' Border-crossing Strategies
• 4.4. Conclusions
• 5. Case Study of Two Interpreters: Xia Wenyun and Yan Jiarui
• 5.1. Xia Wenyun: Interpreter as a Double Agent
• 5.1.1. Brief Biography of Xia Wenyun
• 5.1.2. Xia's Social Capital and Stake in the Field
• 5.2. Yan Jiarui: A Trained KMT Military Interpreter
• 5.3. Conclusions
• 6. Conclusion.

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Author/Creator:

Guo, Ting, 1952- , author

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Main Work:

Surviving in violent conflicts: Chinese interpreters in the second Sino-Japanese war 1931-1945 [by Guo, T.]

Other Related Resources:

Online version: Surviving in violent conflicts :Chinese interpreters in the second Sino-Japanese War 1931-1945 [by Guo, T.] (London : This Palgrave Macmillan imprint is published by Springer Nature, [2016] — ISBN 9781137461193)

Related Series:

Palgrave studies in languages at war

Subjects:

Sino-Japanese Conflict, 1931-1933

Sino-Japanese War, 1937-1945

Translating and interpreting — China — History — 20th century

Translators — China — History — 20th century

General Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Description based on print version record.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Call Numbers:

DS777.5 .G86 2016eb

ISBNs:

9781137461193 (electronic bk.)
1137461195 (electronic bk.)
1137461187 [Invalid]
9781137461186 [Invalid]

OCLC Numbers:

959595137

Other Control Numbers:

EBC4719956 (source: MiAaPQ)
[Unknown Type]: ybp13192232