This handbook is the first multi-faceted and cross-disciplinary overview of how cities can be read through the lens of translation. It is critical reading for researchers, scholars and advanced students in translation studies, linguistics and urban studies.
Tong King Lee is Associate Professor of Translation at the University of Hong Kong.
List of figures and tables
List of contributors
Acknowledgements
Introduction: Thinking cities through translation
Part I
Key Issues
Part II
The macrostructures of urban translation: Policies and institutions
Part III
Counter-writing cities: Translation as praxis
Part IV
Cities in writing, translation as trope
Index