Limin Bai
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2023. “Altering the original fables to suit Chinese notions”: A case study of Robert Thom’s Yishi yuyan 意拾喻言 (1840). Transnational Books for Children 1750-1900: Producers, consumers, encounters, Appel, Charlotte, Nina Christensen and Matthew Grenby (eds.), pp. 69–88
The Yishi yuyan, a Chinese translation of Aesop’s fables based largely on Roger L’Estrange’s (1616–1704) collection, was published circa 1840 by Robert Thom (1807–1846), with his Chinese tutor as co-translator. This chapter examines the sinicization of the Yishi yuan by investigating how the… read more | Chapter