Chapter published in:
A History of Modern Translation Knowledge: Sources, concepts, effects
Edited by Lieven D’hulst and Yves Gambier
[Benjamins Translation Library 142] 2018
► pp. 171–174

Eurocentrism

| University of Tartu, Estonia | KU Leuven, Belgium | Stellenbosch University, South Africa
Keywords: cultural perspectives, geo-cultural views, Sinocentrism, essentialism, continentalization
Published online: 28 June 2018
https://doi.org/10.1075/btl.142.22doo
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Solomon, Jon, and Naoki Sakai
(eds) 2006 Translation, Biopolitics, ‘Colonial Difference’. Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press.Google Scholar
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