On the Role of Translation in the Reconfiguration of Chinese Literary Field in the May Fourth Era/SUR LE RÔLE DE LA TRADUCTION DANS LA RECONFIGURATION DU CHAMP LITTÉRAIRE CHINOIS DANS LA PÉRIODE DU 4 MAI
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Abstract
The May Fourth era was a vigorous period in translation theory and practice in China, as well as a crucial period for the formation of Chinese discourse of modernity. Taking some of Bourdieu’s concepts as a starting point, this paper attempts to study the key role of translation in the reconfiguration of Chinese literary field during the May Fourth era. Modern Chinese intellectuals relied on translation for articulation of their cultural enlightenment project, and derived much of their cultural power from their translation of Western works at that time. It is indicated that translation in the May Fourth era, far from being considered a secondary, marginal activity, constituted one of the important elements participating in the struggle for cultural legitimation and supremacy, and provided easy access to “cultural capital” and “symbolic power” for modern Chinese intellectuals in the Chinese discourse of modernity during the early twentieth century. Key words: translation; modernity; literary field; cultural capital; symbolic power; May Fourth era Resume: La periode du 4 mai a ete non seulement une periode vigoureuse des theories et des pratiques de traduction en Chine, mais aussi une periode cruciale pour la formation du discours chinois de la moderne. En empruntant certains concepts de Bourdieu comme le point de depart, ce document tente d'etudier le role cle de la traduction dans la reconfiguration du champ litteraire chinois au cours de la periode du 4 mai. A cette epoque, les intellectuels chinois modernes se sont appuyes sur la traduction pour former leur projet culturel, et ils ont obtenu une grande partie de leur puissance culturelle de la traduction des œuvres occidentales. Il est indique que la traduction de la periode du 4 mai, loin d'etre consideree comme une activite secondaire et marginale, constituait l'un des elements importants dans la lutte pour la legitimation et la suprematie culturelles, et qu'elle a facilite l'acces au «capital culturel» et au «pouvoir symbolique» pour les intellectuels chinois modernes dans le discours chinois de la modernite au cours du debut du XXe siecle.Mots-cles: traduction; modernite; champ litteraire, capital culturel, pouvoir symbolique; periode du 4 mai
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Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.004 | 0.004 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.003 | 0.004 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.009 | 0.024 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.007 | 0.005 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.005 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".