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Zhang, Runfang.

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Lost calligraphy or reinvented motif: Chinese pictograms in Western fashion.

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Lost calligraphy or reinvented motif: Chinese pictograms in Western fashion./
Author:	Zhang, Runfang.
Description:	127 p.
Notes:	Adviser: Sheryl Hamilton.
Contained By:	Masters Abstracts International41-06.
Subject:	Anthropology, Cultural. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=MQ79054
ISBN:	9780612790544

Lost calligraphy or reinvented motif: Chinese pictograms in Western fashion.
Zhang, Runfang.

Lost calligraphy or reinvented motif: Chinese pictograms in Western fashion. - 127 p.

Adviser: Sheryl Hamilton.

Thesis (M.A.)--McGill University (Canada), 2002.

This thesis investigates the complexity of cultural translation of visual language, considering writing systems both a profound shaping force and microcosmic reflection of the central elements of its culture. It focuses on the case of Chinese pictogram in Western everyday fashion; fashion is treated here as a site where the conceptual, aesthetic and cultural dynamics vividly interact with one another. This work probes what tensions are lost and added to the pictograms' cultural meaning in the process of translation, bearing in mind the two different aesthetic philosophies underlining Western and Chinese calligraphies. Seeing the complexity in the change of tensions, the thesis argues that nothing remains "authentic" in cultural translation, but the value of the encounter lies in the possibilities for each culture to reconsider itself in the corrective mirror of the Other.

ISBN: 9780612790544Subjects--Topical Terms:

735016
Anthropology, Cultural.

Lost calligraphy or reinvented motif: Chinese pictograms in Western fashion.
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