Min-Hsiu Liao. Translation on Display: Multilingual Texts in Multimodal Museum Space. London and New York: Routledge, 2025. xi + 175 pp.

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Published online: 1 December 2025

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Min-Hsiu Liao. Translation on Display: Multilingual Texts in Multimodal Museum Space. London and New York: Routledge, 2025. xi + 175 pp.

Min-Hsiu Liao. Translation on Display: Multilingual Texts in Multimodal Museum Space. London and New York: Routledge, 2025. xi + 175 pp.