An Anthology of Chinese Discourse on Translation (Version 1) - 9781900650922

Taylor & Francis

An Anthology of Chinese Discourse on Translation (Version 1)From Earliest Times to the Buddhist Project\nAuthor(s): Martha Pui Yiu Cheung, Lin Wusun\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: St Jerome Publishing, United Kingdom\nImprint: St Jerome Publishing\nISBN-13: 9781900650922, 978-1900650922\nSynopsis\nTranslation has a long history in China. Down the centuries translators, interpreters, Buddhist monks, Jesuit priests, Protestant missionaries, writers, historians, linguists, and even ministers and emperors have all written about translation, and from an amazing array of perspectives. Such an exciting diversity of views, reflections and theoretical thinking about the art and business of translating is now brought together in a two-volume anthology. The first volume covers a time-frame from roughly the 5th century BCE to the twelfth century CE. It deals with translation in the civil and government context, and with the monumental project of Buddhist sutra translation. The second volume spans.