Sinologists as Translators in the Seventeenth to Nineteenth Centuries

Lawrence Wang-chi Wong and Bernhard Fuehrer

• Publisher: The Chinese University of Hong Kong
• eBook ISBN:
  9789629966072
• Year: 2015

This is a collection of eleven papers from the first and second international conferences "Sinologists as Translators in the 17–19th Centuries." With a focus on the historical context of contributions by early Sinologists and their translations of works in Chinese, papers within this volume explore why certain works were chosen for translation, how they were interpreted, translated, or even manipulated, and the impact they made, especially in establishing the discipline of Sinology in various countries. This book aims to reconstruct a wider historical and intellectual context from which certain translations emerged, and also to further expand the field through the extensive use of hitherto overlooked archive material so as to open up fresh avenues for research.

Table of contents

• About the Series
• Title Page
• Copyright
• Series Editor’s Preface
• Table of Contents
• Acknowledgements
• Introduction
• 1. Translating the Confucian Classics:The Lunyu in the Confucius Sinarum Philosophus (1687)
• 2. The Manuscript of the Daodejing in the British Library
• 3. Filial Piety, the Imperial Works, and Translation:Pierre-Martial Cibot and The Book of Filial Piety
• 4. Location, Location, Location:Peter Perring Thoms (1790–1855), Cantonese Localism, andthe Genesis of Literary Translation from the Chinese
• 5.“Objects of Curiosity”:John Francis Davis as a Translator of Chinese Literature
• 6. Early French Sinology and the Question of“Plagiarizing” Re-translation:The Case of Heinrich Kurz’ German Rendition of Huajian ji
• 7. August Pfizmaier (1808–1887) and His Translationsfrom Chinese Poetry
• 8. Translation and the British Colonial Mission:The Career of Samuel Turner Fearon and the Establishment ofChinese Studies in King’s College London
• 9. Kingsmill’s Shijing “Translations” into Sanskrit andthe Idea of “Congenial Languages” at the End of theNineteenth Century
• 10. Early Translations of Chinese Literature into German:The Example of Wilhelm Grube (1855–1908) andHis Translation of Investiture of the Gods
• 11. Collaborators and Competitors:Western Translators of the Yijing in the Eighteenth andNineteenth Centuries
• Contributors