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Dung Kai Cheung, “Atlas: The Archaeology of an Imaginary City” - Coggle…

- - - - map/cartography, geographical location, mythicization, legends, indigenization, supernatural
      - translation
        
        double meaning
        
        Scandal Point: “The name Scandal Point was invented by the British. It is impossible to trace the actual origin of the name. Strictly speaking, the world ‘scandal’ implies a measure of public offence, but in its Chinese translation, han wa, became ‘gossip’, limiting its meaning to ‘true or false talk which brings harm, shame, or disrespect to other.’
        
        back translation → process of re-translating content from the target language back to its source language in literal terms
        
        Aldrich Street: It was, therefore, most appropriate to translate the Major's name as Oi Dit Dzui (love of order)..
        
        (in-)accurate translation
        
        Ice House Street: "the Chinese name of the street, Suet Chong, does not correspond to its English equivalent, ‘lce House'. 'Ice' should be translated as bing, but local people had the habit of calling 'ice’ suet, which actually mean 'snow'. Furthermore, the translation of 'house’ as chong, meaning 'factory', is also incompatible with the fact that the ‘House’ was not a factory but a warehouse (fu).
        
        transliteration → the act of converting a written language from one writing system to another
        
        Sycamore Street: Since at that time Tai Kok Tsui was a residential area for local Chinese, the name mo fa guo was rejected out of respect for local culture and 'sycamore' was transliterated into the much more elegant Si Go Mo Cai (The Street of Poetry, Singing, and Dancing).
    - - what distinguishes "historical" from "fictional" stories is first and foremost their contents, rather than their form.
        
        The content of historical stories is real events, events that really happened, rather than imaginary events, events invented by the narrator. This implies that the form in which historical events present themselves to a prospective narrator is found rather than constructed.”