{"title":"Rethinking knowledge in the making of modernism through the translingual practice of Qiyun shengdong","authors":"Lin He","doi":"10.1080/23306343.2023.2260208","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/23306343.2023.2260208","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACTTranslingual practice in a historical context conceptualizes translation as travel; when examined in a social network, translation can be perceived as an innovative force of knowledge-making. This study is concerned with the travels of a critical artistic term in Medieval China: qiyun shengdong. Predicated on their distinct connotations, Xie He combined the meanings of qi and yun to refer to the vitality evinced in the human body, as well as the beauty of the talent and elegance emanating from the posture. Sinologists such as Herbert Giles and Laurence Binyon translated and introduced the term based on the Western cultural milieu, making qiyun commensurate with “rhythm,” eventually developing the mainstream translation of “rhythmic vitality.” With an examination of the rewriting and repositioning of qiyun from Binyon to Vortex leaders Ezra Pound and Wyndham Lewis as well as Roger Fry, a key member of the Bloomsbury circle and the pioneering modernist and formalist, the emergence of modernist discourse is highlighted with translation as an agent. This research will expose the understated process of knowledge formation through translation across cultures by analyzing the travel and reception of the term qiyun shengdong to recapture translation as an influential aspect of artistic innovation.KEYWORDS: Qiyunrhythmtranslingual practiceknowledge-makingtravel Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).Notes1. The Six Canons/Laws are as follows (as translated by the present author): “What are the six canons/laws? The first is about rhythm and vividness; the second is about the use of the brush in balancing qi; the third is about responding to objects and portraying the image; the fourth is about allocating color to the category; the fifth is about arrangement and composition; and the sixth is about transferring and modelling.”(六法者何?一曰,气韵生动是也; 二曰,骨法用笔是也; 三曰,应物象形是也; 四曰,随类赋彩是也; 五曰,经营位置是也; 六曰,传移模写是也。)2. “六法精论,万古不移。然而骨法用笔以下,五者可学,如其气韵,必在生知,固不可以巧密得,复不可以岁月到。默契神会,不知然而然也。人品既已高,气韵不得不高,气韵既已高矣,生动不得不至。所谓神之又神,而能精焉。” (Guo Citation2001, 7) Translated by the present author.3. The story of Lunbian told by Zhuangzi started with the Duke of Qi Huan, who was reading in the hall when a wheel craftsman called Bian was making a wheel below the hall. This craftsman put down his axe and chisel and other tools, went up to the hall above and asked the Duke of Huan, “May I ask the King, what book are you reading?” The Duke said, “It is the book of the sage” The craftsman asked again, “Is the sage still alive?” The Duke said, “He is dead.” Bian said, “In that case, what you are reading is just the dross of the ancients.” The Duke said, “I am here reading, how can you, a craftsman who makes wheels, just talk about it? If you can tell me the truth, I can forgive you, and you are not guilty; but if you cannot reason, you will be executed.” Bian said: “Look at this from the point of view of my profession. If you make a wheel slowly, it is e","PeriodicalId":29872,"journal":{"name":"Asia Pacific Translation and Intercultural Studies","volume":"19 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136373977","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Rewriting a foreign novel through a collaborative approach between an interpreter and a writer: the translation of Uncle Tom’s Cabin in the Chinese landscape","authors":"Yanbo Yao","doi":"10.1080/23306343.2023.2250202","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/23306343.2023.2250202","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":29872,"journal":{"name":"Asia Pacific Translation and Intercultural Studies","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2023-08-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48329139","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"6B4T in China: a case of Inter-Asian feminist knowledge negotiation and contestation through translation","authors":"Xiao Cheng","doi":"10.1080/23306343.2023.2241126","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/23306343.2023.2241126","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":29872,"journal":{"name":"Asia Pacific Translation and Intercultural Studies","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2023-08-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48697069","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Asia Pacific translation and intercultural studies: ten years on","authors":"Xuanmin Luo","doi":"10.1080/23306343.2023.2215525","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/23306343.2023.2215525","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":29872,"journal":{"name":"Asia Pacific Translation and Intercultural Studies","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2023-05-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49369434","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A cognitive stylistic approach to the translation of spatial metaphors in Alai’s Chen’ai luoding","authors":"","doi":"10.1080/23306343.2023.2191468","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/23306343.2023.2191468","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":29872,"journal":{"name":"Asia Pacific Translation and Intercultural Studies","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2023-04-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46452829","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"An interview with Joel Martinsen: translating The Dark Forest and Cixin Liu’s other Sci-fi","authors":"Gaosheng Deng, Sang-Seong Goh","doi":"10.1080/23306343.2023.2168546","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/23306343.2023.2168546","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":29872,"journal":{"name":"Asia Pacific Translation and Intercultural Studies","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2023-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48148122","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Translational spaces: towards a Chinese-Western convergence","authors":"Qian Zhang","doi":"10.1080/23306343.2023.2167153","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/23306343.2023.2167153","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":29872,"journal":{"name":"Asia Pacific Translation and Intercultural Studies","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2023-01-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44471626","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Re-instantiation of multimodal meaning in the translation of Chinese comic Zhuang Zi Speaks: The Music of Nature","authors":"J. Zhao","doi":"10.1080/23306343.2022.2160561","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/23306343.2022.2160561","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":29872,"journal":{"name":"Asia Pacific Translation and Intercultural Studies","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2023-01-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47469940","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Representing cityscape through texts and images: translations of multimodal public notices in Macao","authors":"Xi Chen","doi":"10.1080/23306343.2023.2165004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/23306343.2023.2165004","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":29872,"journal":{"name":"Asia Pacific Translation and Intercultural Studies","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2023-01-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46164538","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Translation and Chinese modernity","authors":"Jiachun Zhu","doi":"10.1080/23306343.2023.2223067","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/23306343.2023.2223067","url":null,"abstract":"Click to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).Additional informationNotes on contributorsJiachun ZhuJiachun Zhu is currently assistant professor of translation studies in the school of foreign studies at Xi’an Jiaotong University. His research interests include translation and intercultural studies, translator studies and translation history.","PeriodicalId":29872,"journal":{"name":"Asia Pacific Translation and Intercultural Studies","volume":"330 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135799851","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}