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SUMMARY:China Humanities Seminar featuring Nathan Vedal — The Art of (Tested) Translation: Manchu Exams in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Nathan Vedal\, Assistant Professor\, Department of East Asian Studies\, University of Toronto; Former Fairbank Center Graduate Student Associate \n\n\n\nThis talk\, introducing a forthcoming monograph (Translation\, Emulation\, and Manchu Literary Culture)\, will consider the institution of a civil service translation examination during the Qing dynasty\, as well as the Manchu translation program in the elite Hanlin Academy. The civil service translation exams\, administered for members of the Eight Banners\, required rigorous literary\, classical\, and linguistic training\, as well as composition of original essays in the Manchu language\, highlighting the critical role of Chinese models in the generation of Manchu literature. Some contemporaneous literati at the Hanlin Academy\, a training ground for officials and court scholars who passed the Chinese civil service exam at the highest level\, underwent a three-year program of Manchu study culminating in a final translation exam. Knowledge of Manchu gained at the Hanlin Academy is evident in the deployment of multilingual literary effects in Chinese compositions. Within Qing literary-intellectual culture\, the juxtaposition of Chinese and Manchu\, through acts of translation and direct imitation\, yielded a productive venue for literary creation and self-fashioning. \n\n\n\nNathan Vedal is an assistant professor in the Department of East Asian Studies at the University of Toronto\, specializing in Chinese intellectual and cultural history. He received his undergraduate degree from the Curtis Institute of Music and his PhD in Chinese history from Harvard University. His first book\, The Culture of Language in Ming China: Sound\, Script\, and the Redefinition of Boundaries of Knowledge (Columbia University Press\, 2022)\, won the Morris D. Forkosch Prize from the Journal of the History of Ideas. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/china-humanities-seminar-featuring-nathan-vedal-the-art-of-tested-translation-manchu-exams-in-the-eighteenth-and-nineteenth-centuries/
LOCATION:Common Room\, 2 Divinity Ave.\, 2 Divinity Ave.\, Cambridge\, Massachusetts\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:China Humanities Seminar
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