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3 The Hanzi wenhua quan: Center, Periphery, and the Shaggy Borderlands: 「漢字文化圈」: 中心、邊陲與荒野
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Published:May 2022
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This chapter evaluates the wider set of relationships between Chinese texts and foreign publics, explaining that the “Chinese-character sphere” or hanzi wenhua quan has many different kinds of borders, internal and external. One kind of border is semantic. Within China, one stumbles on nonsense words and names, relics of lost languages that have been preserved in Chinese-character transcription. Their absurdity is a kind of border separating the past from present understanding. Another kind of border is graphic. Attempting to describe the Chinese script's sphere of influence through a negation of alphabetic writing, as a “world without translation,” simplifies by excluding both a great deal of cultural variability and the many historical processes and practices through which reading methods come to be. The third kind of border is rhetorical or intentional. Translation is certainly one name for the opening of a gap between what is said and what is meant, and without some such gap there is no rhetoric, no subjectivity, and no real dialogue. Ultimately, the formula of the Hanzi wenhua quan, this zone where translation is not necessary, applies more or less smoothly only to one part of the wider world immediately affected by Chinese culture.
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