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Translating and popularizing China’s past in Portugal: double foreignness in José de Freitas’s A China antiga e moderna (1941)
| dc.contributor.author | Cheung, Charles | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2026-09-10T15:48:10Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2026-09-10T15:48:10Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2026-01-01 | |
| dc.description.abstract | This article proposes ‘double foreignness’ as a methodological prompt for analyzing the writing of a foreign country’s history, where spatiotemporal distance is compounded by cultural-linguistic distance. It examines José de Freitas’s A China antiga e moderna (1941), a Portuguese popular history volume that connects China’s past to the Second Sino-Japanese War for early-1940s readers. Through Lefevere’s ([1992]/2017) concept of rewriting, the study shows how Freitas selectively rewrites francophone sources into Portuguese within a popularizing editorial framework. Drawing on Maitland’s (2017) model of cultural translation, the analysis traces Freitas’s interpretive gestures through which China’s past is made more intelligible to Portuguese readers and framed sympathetically, notably through familiar reference frames and recurrent images of the Chinese as ‘pacifist’ and ‘traditionalist.’ The case suggests that double foreignness can be productively analyzed through the interplay of intertemporal, interlingual, and cultural translation. | eng |
| dc.identifier.doi | 10.21747/21844585/tm8_1a5 | |
| dc.identifier.eid | 105048442812 | |
| dc.identifier.other | d75656e8-a353-4723-a0c6-e7000f21df2f | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10400.14/59326 | |
| dc.language.iso | eng | |
| dc.peerreviewed | yes | |
| dc.publisher | University of Porto Faculty of Arts and Humanities | |
| dc.rights.uri | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ | |
| dc.subject | Chinese history in Portugal | eng |
| dc.subject | Cultural translation | eng |
| dc.subject | Double foreignness | eng |
| dc.subject | History as translation | eng |
| dc.subject | Popular history | eng |
| dc.subject | Rewriting | eng |
| dc.title | Translating and popularizing China’s past in Portugal: double foreignness in José de Freitas’s A China antiga e moderna (1941) | |
| dc.type | research article | |
| dspace.entity.type | Publication | |
| oaire.citation.endPage | 96 | |
| oaire.citation.issue | 1 | |
| oaire.citation.startPage | 80 | |
| oaire.citation.volume | 8 | |
| oaire.version | http://purl.org/coar/version/c_970fb48d4fbd8a85 |
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