中国哲学典籍英译及传播的挑战与应对——《慎子》首版英译者郝令喆访谈录

Challenges and Strategies in Translating and Disseminating Classical Chinese Philosophy:An Interview with Eirik Lang Harris

郝令喆(Eirik Lang Harris)博士是西方较典型的中国哲学"学者型译员",曾先后发表多部哲学典籍的英文节译以及《慎子》佚文全本英译。其专著《〈慎子〉佚文哲学分析及翻译》(Harris,2016)被美国和欧洲数所大学选作中国早期哲学的教学用书。2018年年底,郝令喆博士受邀于中山大学讲学期间,我与他就中国哲学典籍英译在翻译过程、出版与传播中的典型困难与对策进行了讨论与交流,期望从西方汉学研究者与译者的角度对这些问题进行阐述。访谈稿基于交流内容翻译、整理而成,并经郝令喆博士过目审订。

As a typical scholar-translator of classical Chinese philosophy from the U.S.,Eirik Lang Harris has translated and published many extracts of the classics of Chinese philosophy.He also published a complete English translation of Shenzi(《慎子》)in his book The Shenzi Fragments:A Philosophical Analysis and Translation(Harris,2016),which has been used by several American and European universities as a textbook on early Chinese philosophy.I was pleased to make an interview with Dr.Harris in his short academic visit to Sun Yat-sen University in November 2018,discussing the challenges as well as coping strategies in translating and disseminating classical Chinese philosophy,so as to draw some insights on these issues from a sinologist-translator’s viewpoint.