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Publication details [#19228]
Dai, Junxia and Chen D. Yang. 2009. Translation of Chinese classics by Christian missionaries. Chinese Science & Technology Translators Journal (中国科技翻译) 22 (4) : 52–54.
Publication type
Article in jnl/bk
Publication language
English
Abstract
In the Late Ming and Early Qing Dynasties many European missionaries came to China with the hope to convert China to Christianity and their religious missions inevitably influenced their translation of Chinese classics. The paper examines how they interpreted Chinese classics in the Biblical spirit and tried to Christianize their translations and how the historical effects of these translations contradicted these missionaries' original intentions.
Source : Abstract in journal