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  • Sinologists as Translators in the Seventeenth to Nineteenth Centuries
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  • Edited by Lawrence Wang-chi Wong and Bernhard Fuehrer
  • 2016
  • Published by: The Chinese University of Hong Kong Press
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This collection of papers from the first and second international conferences with the above title explores why early sinologists chose certain works for translation in their particular historical contexts, how such works were interpreted, translated, or manipulated, and the impact they made, especially in establishing the discipline of sinology in various countries.

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  1. Half title, Series info, Title page, Copyright
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  1. Series Editor’s Preface
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  1. Table of Contents
  2. pp. vii-viii
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  1. Acknowledgements
  2. pp. ix-x
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  1. Introduction
  2. Bernhard Fuehrer
  3. pp. xi-xx
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  1. Translating the Confucian Classics: The Lunyu in the Confucius Sinarum Philosophus (1687)
  2. Thierry Meynard
  3. pp. 1-38
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  1. The Manuscript of the Daodejing in the British Library
  2. Claudia von Collani
  3. pp. 39-86
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  1. Filial Piety, the Imperial Works, and Translation: Pierre-Martial Cibot and The Book of Filial Piety
  2. Feng-Chuan Pan
  3. pp. 87-126
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  1. Location, Location, Location: Peter Perring Thoms (1790–1855), Cantonese Localism, and the Genesis of Literary Translation from the Chinese
  2. Patricia Sieber
  3. pp. 127-168
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  1. “Objects of Curiosity”: John Francis Davis as a Translator of Chinese Literature
  2. Lawrence Wang-chi Wong
  3. pp. 169-204
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  1. Early French Sinology and the Question of “Plagiarizing” Re-translation: The Case of Heinrich Kurz’ German Rendition of Huatian ji
  2. Roland Altenburger
  3. pp. 205-244
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  1. August Pfizmaier (1808–1887) and His Translations from Chinese Poetry
  2. Bernhard Fuehrer
  3. pp. 245-270
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  1. Translation and the British Colonial Mission: The Career of Samuel Turner Fearon and the Establishment of Chinese Studies in King’s College London
  2. Uganda Sze Pui Kwan
  3. pp. 271-306
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  1. Kingsmill’s Shijing “Translations” into Sanskrit and the Idea of “Congenial Languages” at the End of the Nineteenth Century
  2. Wolfgang Behr
  3. pp. 307-354
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  1. Early Translations of Chinese Literature into German: The Example of Wilhelm Grube (1855–1908) and His Translation of Investiture of the Gods
  2. Thomas Zimmer
  3. pp. 355-384
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  1. Collaborators and Competitors: Western Translators of the Yijing in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries
  2. Richard J. Smith
  3. pp. 385-434
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  1. Contributors
  2. pp. 435-440
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