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Tamkang Review — Special Issue
\nCall for Papers<\/p>\n
Reverse Translation<\/p>\n
In the historical context of global cultural circulation, \u201ccultural export\u201d has traditionally been conceived as a one-way flow, in which dominant cultures penetrate weaker ones. This process, reinforced through mechanisms such as translation, media transformation, and localized consumption, has long shaped the cultural imagination and aesthetic paradigms of globalization. The concept of \u201ccultural imperialism,\u201d popularized in the 1960s, made explicit the uneven distribution of political, economic, and cultural power among nations. Today, however, we are witnessing a structural shift that demands critical re-examination.<\/p>\n
Taiwan provides a particularly illuminating case. Historically situated on the so-called periphery, Taiwan has often been described in prevailing discourses as a recipient of cultural influence, rather than fully recognized as a producer in its own right. Yet Taiwan\u2019s layered colonial histories, polyglot linguistic environment, and hybrid cultural forms have enabled it to redirect and reconfigure cultural flows. In recent years, Taiwanese writers such as Wu Ming-yi, Chen Si-hong, Yang Shuang-tzu, and Li Chia-ying have achieved significant international recognition, their works translated, awarded, and promoted across multiple global platforms. Taiwan\u2019s invitation to serve as guest of honor at the Seoul International Book Fair, with a themed pavilion curated around the notion of \u201cTaiwan Sensibility,\u201d further underscores the island\u2019s emergence as a site of cultural production and export.<\/p>\n
We describe this phenomenon as \u201creverse translation.\u201d More than a matter of linguistic transfer, reverse translation functions as a cultural-political practice that unsettles established systems of knowledge and sensory experience, displacing conventional narratives and reframing cultural imaginaries. This special issue invites contributions that interrogate the counter-current dynamics of reverse translation and the disruptive potential they entail. We particularly welcome studies that examine how Taiwan and other parts of the world that have long been relegated to cultural peripheries are reorienting the center and prompting new ways of conceptualizing cultural export in the global age.<\/p>\n
We welcome topics including (but not limited to):
\n\u25c6 Reverse translation as cultural and political practice
\n\u25c6 Power and aesthetics in translation and retranslation<\/p>\n
\u25c6 Forms of translating sensory experience and cultural memory
\n\u25c6 Reverse translation and global cultural flows
\n\u25c6 Materiality, mediation, and infrastructures of reverse translation
\n\u25c6 Epistemic shifts and aesthetic re-framings<\/p>\n