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“Translation is a form of civil disobedience,“ Yaofu Lin explained to me in late August 2012, over an afternoon coffee in Seattle. The father of the ASLE-T (the Taiwanese branch of the Association for the Study of Literature and Environment), Lin knows the potential power that rests in the hands of the translator. This book is about carryings-across. Partial carryings-across. We are partial to what we carry across, and what we choose not to translate is as much a form of resistance as what we do choose to translate.
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Jane Bennett, Vibrant Matter: A Political Ecology of Things. Durham: Duke UP, 2010, 113.
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Estok, S.C. (2013). Partial Views. In: Estok, S.C., Kim, WC. (eds) East Asian Ecocriticisms. Literatures, Cultures, and the Environment. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137345363_1
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