Publications
Publication details [#4979]
Chan, Leo Tak-hung. 1998. Liberal versions: late Qing approaches to translating Aesop’s fables. In Pollard, David E., ed. Translation and creation: readings of western literature in early modern China, 1840-1918 (Benjamins Translation Library 25). Amsterdam: John Benjamins. pp. 57–77. 
Publication type
Article in jnl/bk
Publication language
English
Keywords
19th century | 20th century | acculturation | adaptation | assimilation=appropriation | case study | children's literature=juvenile literature | comparative research=contrastive research | fairy tale | faithfulness=fidelity | literary translation | occidentalism | postcolonialism=colonialism | text type=typology
Source language
Person as a subject
Abstract
This paper aims to investigate three translations into Chinese of Aesop’s fables, made from 1840 to 1906. The author argues that these translations illustrate the implications of the liberal (free) method of translating fables quite well. Two translations into English are also used for comparison purposes.
Source : J. Vluijmans