How Long to Read Translating the West

How Long Does it Take to Read Translating the West?

It takes the average reader 5 hours and 23 minutes to read Translating the West by Douglas R. Howland

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

In this rich and absorbing analysis of the transformation of political thought in nineteenth-century Japan, Douglas Howland examines the transmission to Japan of key concepts--liberty, rights, sovereignty, and society--from Western Europe and the United States. Because Western political concepts did not translate well into their language, Japanese had to invent terminology to engage Western political thought. This work of westernization served to structure historical agency as Japanese leaders undertook the creation of a modern state. Where scholars have previously treated the introduction of Western political thought to Japan as a simple migration of ideas from one culture to another, Howland undertakes an unprecedented integration of the history of political concepts and the semiotics of translation techniques. He demonstrates that Japanese efforts to translate the West must be understood as problems both of language and action--as the creation and circulation of new concepts and the usage of these new concepts in debates about the programs and policies to be implemented in a westernizing Japan. Translating the West will interest scholars of East Asian studies and translation studies and historians of political thought, liberalism, and modernity.

How long is Translating the West?

Translating the West by Douglas R. Howland is 316 pages long, and a total of 80,896 words.

This makes it 107% the length of the average book. It also has 99% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Translating the West Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 7 hours and 22 minutes to read Translating the West aloud.

What Reading Level is Translating the West?

Translating the West is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

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