caa a22 4500 606172580 CHVBK 20210128100729.0 cr unu---uuuuu 210128e20151201xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s11059-014-0285-2 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s11059-014-0285-2 Shen Chu Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures, School of Humanities, Tsinghua University, 100084, Beijing, People's Republic of China aut Cosmopolitanism and the translation of children's literature: Zheng Zhenduo as a case study [Elektronische Daten] [Chu Shen] Cosmopolitanism in early twentieth-century China was chiefly associated with political ideals. The author contends that as an intellectual discourse, cosmopolitanism also made a visible impact on the literary landscape. Literary translation was a field where the cosmopolitan spirit was most clearly discerned, and children's literature is especially relevant to cosmopolitan thinking due to its association with humanist ideals in the Chinese enlightenment endeavor. After an attempt at defining cosmopolitanism in its specific historical and contextual background, this article moves on to a detailed look at Zheng Zhenduo's (1898-1958) cosmopolitan consciousness and its link with his advocacy for translating children's literature. The selection of genres and authors, and the strategies of translation are examined in detail. The case helps to reveal that the translation of children's literature in early twentieth-century China, which first grew out of the Chinese nationalist movement, came to be increasingly tinged with deep cosmopolitan ramifications that sought continuously to disrupt mainstream nationalist discourse. The article also shows that the translator, caught in the vicissitudes of the early twentieth century, disrupted the frequently-assumed dichotomies between the cosmopolitan and the local, and between cosmopolitanism and patriotism, not through theory or discourse, but through the very act of translating. As such, the historical case of China might also provide some interesting insights into the role of children's literature translation in constructing the world we inhabit. Akadémiai Kiadó, Budapest, Hungary, 2015 Cosmopolitanism nationallicence Translation nationallicence Children's literature nationallicence Zheng Zhenduo nationallicence Early twentieth-century China nationallicence Neohelicon Springer Netherlands 42/2(2015-12-01), 529-549 0324-4652 42:2<529 2015 42 11059 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11059-014-0285-2 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11059-014-0285-2 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Shen Chu Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures, School of Humanities, Tsinghua University, 100084, Beijing, People's Republic of China aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Neohelicon Springer Netherlands 42/2(2015-12-01), 529-549 0324-4652 42:2<529 2015 42 11059