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In Modern Chinese Counter-Enlightenment: Affect, Reason, and the Transcultural Lexicon, Peng Hsiao-yen argues that a trend of Counter-Enlightenment had grown from the late Qing to the May Fourth era in the 1910s to the 1920s and continued to the 1940s. She demonstrates how Counter-Enlightenment was manifested with case studies such as Lu Xun's writings in the late 1900s, the Aesthetic Education movement from the 1910s to 1920s, and the Science and Lifeview deb.

"This volume brings together some of the latest research by scholars from the UK, Taiwan, and Hong Kong to examine a variety of issues relating to the history of translation between China and Europe, aimed at increasing dialogue between Chinese studies and translation studies. Covering the nineteenth century to the present, the essays tackle a number of important issues, including the role of relay translation, hybridity and transculturation, methods for the incorporation of foreign words and concepts, the problems entailed by the importation of foreign paradigms and epistemes, the role of public institutions, the issue of agency, and the role of metaphors to conceptualize translation. By examining the dissemination of certain key terms from the West to the East, often through pivotal languages, and by laying bare the transformation of knowledge conveyed through these terms, the essays go well beyond the 'difference and similarity' comparison model in the investigation of East-West relations, demonstrating that transcultural hybridity is a more meaningful topic to pursue. Moreover, they demonstrate how the translator, always working simultaneously under several domestic and foreign institutions, needs to resort to 'selection, deletion and compromise', in other words personal free choice, when negotiating among institutional powers."--Publisher's description

Frontmatter -- Preface -- Index -- Introduction -- Capacity Development Approaches—What to Expect from this Book -- Acknowledgements -- How to Change Structures: Governance-related Capacity Development -- The LPG Project: Collective Action for Fuel Transition among the Urban Poor -- EnerKey Long-term Perspective Group (ELPG)—A Format to Introduce Long-term Thinking in Today's Decision-making -- Building Local Capacities to Improve the Quality of Electricity for Agriculture and to Enhance Energy Efficiency -- Mobile Learning Containers (MLC) for Improving the Qualification of Workers at Construction Sites -- Training Practice and Theoretical Instruction -- Integrating Street Food in a Sustainable Food Distribution System—Food Safety Training for, and with, Street Vendors -- Waste Management—Practical Training and Capacity Building -- On-site Construction Workshops in Iran -- Wastewater Treatment— International Workshops and Online Learning Platform -- Multidisciplinary Research/Design/ Build Summer Schools: Alternative Solutions for a Water-scarce Future in Metropolitan Lima, Peru -- Education for Sustainable Lifestyles—ESL -- Training on the Way to the First Passive House in Western China -- Capacity Development through Media and Counselling -- Trying to Persuade Rather than to Force People: The Approach of the Handbook for Green Housing -- Urban Agriculture in Casablanca— Overview of the Capacity Development Approaches -- Meteorological Measurements -- Complementary Digital and Printed Learning Media on Construction Topics -- The Projects of the Programme on Future Megacities in Brief -- Authors -- Imprint