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Sinologists as Translators in the Seventeenth to Nineteenth Centuries

Asian Translation Traditions Series
　　(Volume 2)

Edited by Lawrence Wang-chi Wong & Bernhard Fuehrer

2015
440 pages
ISBN: 978-962-996-607-2

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Table of Contents

Acknowledgementsix
IntroductionBernhard FUEHRERxi
Translating the Confucian Classics:
　　The Lunyu in the Confucius Sinarum Philosophus (1687)		Thierry MEYNARD1
The Manuscript of the Daodejing in the British LibraryClaudia VON COLLANI39
Filial Piety, the Imperial Works, and Translation:
　　Pierre-Martial Cibot and The Book of Filial Piety		Feng-Chuan PAN87
Location, Location, Location:
　　Peter Perring Thoms (1790-1855), Cantonese Localism, and
the Genesis of Literary Translation from the Chinese		Patricia SIEBER127
“Objects of Curiosity”:
　　John Francis Davis as a Translator of Chinese Literature		Lawrence Wang-chi WONG169
Early French Sinoloy and the Question of “Plagiarizing”
Re-translation:
　　The Case of Heinrich Kurz’ German Rendition of Huajian ji		Roland ALTENBURGER205
August Pfizmaier (1808-1887) and His Translations from Chinese PoetryBernhard FUEHRER245
Translation and he British Colonial Mission:
　　The Career of Samuel Turner Fearon and the Establishment
of Chinese Studies in King’s College London		Uganda Sze Pui KWAN271
Kingsmill’s Shijing “Translations” into Sanskrit and the idea of
“Congenial Languages” at the End of the Nineteenth Century		Wolfgang BEHR307
Early Translation of Chinese Literature into German:
　　The Example of Wilhelm Grube (1855-1908) and His
Translation of Investiture of the Gods		Thomas ZIMMER355
Collaborators and Competitors:
　　Western Translators of the Yijing in the Eighteenth and
Nineteenth Centuries		Richard J. SMITH385
Contributors435