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Chan, Leo Tak-hung. 1997. The impressionistic approach to translation theorizing or: twentieth-century Chinese ideas of translation through the Western looking-glass. In Snell-Hornby, Mary, Zuzana Jettmarová and Klaus Kaindl, eds. Translation as intercultural communication (Benjamins Translation Library 20). Amsterdam: John Benjamins. pp. 57–66. ![DOI logo](https://benjamins.com/logos/doi-logo.svg)
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Article in jnl/bk
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English
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In this article the author wonders, among other issues, whether much of the discussion that passed for translation theory in China was actually translation criticism. Or was this a theory that concentrated more on description and evaluation of the product than on analysis of process? The paper is based on a study of the key ideas propounded by acclaimed translation theorists of the first half of the century, among them Yan Fu, Fu Lei and Qian Zhongshu.
Source : J. Vluijmans