Carlos G . Tee

National Taiwan Normal University, Graduate Institute of Translation and Interpretation, Faculty Member

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CARLOS TEE is Associate Professor at the Graduate Institute of Translation & Interpretation, National Taiwan Normal University. A three-time recipient of the Liang Shih-chiu Literary Prize for Translation, he has a PhD in Comparative Literature (specialization in Literary Translation Studies, Narratology and James Joyce's "Ulysses") from Fu Jen Catholic University. Before joining NTNU, he was full-time Asst. Professor at National Taiwan University and also taught in an adjunct capacity at Fu Jen's graduate program in T&I. He has published a number of translated books on Neoconfucian philosophy, Chinese archaic jade and porcelain as well as journal papers on Comparative literature, Translation Theory and the English translation of stream of consciousness in James Joyce’s Ulysses.
Supervisors: Prof. Chang Han-liang, Fudan University and Prof. Nicholas Koss, Peking University
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Stream of Consciousness, Peristalsis and Translation: "Lestrygonians" from the Narratological Perspective

”Lestrygonians” is one of the most challenging episodes in ”Ulysses” owing to its allusive depth ... more ”Lestrygonians” is one of the most challenging episodes in ”Ulysses” owing to its allusive depth and extraordinary wit. Descriptions of the aroma and images of food, the pungent associations they conjure up in the ”thoughtful” mind of Bloom, once juxtaposed with interior monologues showing his disturbing anxiety over Molly's infidelity, easily contribute to the difficulty of understanding the text of the episode. In this initial style, the frequent use of short psycho-narration passages reminds us of the narrator's presence through brief narrative introductions of on-going actions and scenarios in the narrative. These introductions and the need to present the inner thoughts of characters make possible the splicing of psycho-narration with monologues, and for the narrator's adoption of figural voice, both of which complicate reading and translation. In this paper, these issues on the interpretation of the episode's textual structure are studied by comparing the two Chinese translations with Joyce's original. How the initial style in ”Lestrygonians,” when combined with the food theme, interfered with reading and translation is studied from the narratological point of view using Dorrit Cohn's methodology of classifying acts of the mind.

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Towards a Philosophical Foundation for Translation: Ricoeur’s Hermeneutics

Fear and Strategy: Xiao Qian and Wen Jieruo’s Chinese Translation of Ulysses

Spectrum: Studies in Language, Literature, Translation, and Interpretation, Vol. 15(2). 17-38, 2020

The stream of consciousness mode is a key feature of James Joyce’s Ulysses, but Xiao Qian and Wen... more The stream of consciousness mode is a key feature of James Joyce’s Ulysses, but Xiao Qian and Wen Jieruo have turned a blind eye on this as they followed a more socio-political strategy to drop Joyce’s psychological modes altogether from their translation. Xiao and Wen have a reason for choosing said strategy despite Xiao’s familiarity with the technique. Several factors forced them to drop the stream of consciousness mode in favor of a politically-correct format. After all, historical developments did not allow literary Modernism to thrive and Ulysses to be accepted in 20th–century China. The quarrel between the leftists and the rightists among men of literature contributed to this negative atmosphere. Then, the rise of communism made things even worse with the state’s subsequent coercion of writers and translators to toe the official line. But perhaps the single most determining factor was the Cultural Revolution and its attendant atrocities. Xiao was labeled a rightist, purged by Mao’s Red Guards, banished to a Chinese gulag, and was forbidden from writing after his release. Political persecution made him extra cautious, and their decision to jettison Joyce’s stream of consciousness mode is understandable. In Translation and Conflict, Mona Baker brings forward the concept of “selective appropriation,” which she argues to be evident in patterns of omission and addition that are traceable in the target text itself. Relevant historical events, personal accounts from Xiao and Wen, as well as more recent studies by PRC scholars show that their strategy of purging the stream of consciousness technique altogether from their translation is a classic example of selective appropriation resulting from self-censorship, of adopting a translation strategy in consideration of political reality. This paper examines Xiao and Wen’s translation strategy by comparing sample excerpts, and provides a historical account of decisive historical events.

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