Publications
Publication details [#2555]
Shouyi, Fan. 1991. Ever since Yan Fu and his criteria of translation. In Larson, Mildred L., ed. Translation: theory and practice, tension and interdependence (American Translators Association Scholarly Monograph Series 5). Amsterdam: John Benjamins. pp. 63–70. ![DOI logo](https://benjamins.com/logos/doi-logo.svg)
Publication type
Article in jnl/bk
Publication language
English
Person as a subject
Abstract
When Yan Fu (1853-1921), a well-known scholar and translator, put forth his three-character criteria of translation (1896), he hardly expected that the criteria he had laid down would spark off a controversy that was to go on for almost a century. It is the purpose of this article to make a brief summary of the arguments for and against his criteria and to justify Yan's criteria on linguistic grounds, so as to give Western readers a rough picture of the situation in the translators' circle in China.
Source : Abstract in book