典籍复译的危机——《论语》英译二百年(1809～2009)之启示

Crisis in Retranslating Chinese Classics:Reflections on Confucian Analects Retranslated into English over the Past Two Centuries

以《论语》英译为中心,回顾了《论语》英译从1809年至2009年两百年间译本出版的情况,并参照国外译本的特点,分析了近年国内《论语》复译存在的主要危机和问题,希望由此得出对典籍复译的启示。

This paper,focusing on the Confucian Analects which has been retranslated over and over during the past two centuries since the publication of its first English version in 1809,analyzes the main problems existing in the versions recently published at home,and comes up with some suggestions for retranslating Chinese classics.