翻译研究的“历史转向”还是历史研究的“翻译转向”?——《欧洲近代早期的文化翻译》述评

Historical Turn in Translation Studies or Translation Turn in History Studies:A Review of Cultural Translation in Early Modern Europe(2007)

《欧洲近代早期的文化翻译》（2007）是从史学角度研究翻译现象的论文集，全书共分翻译与语言、翻译与文化、翻译与科学三部分，收论文12篇，旨在填补重视译者对比而不重视文化对比、重视短期过程而不重视长期走向、重视理论史不重视实践史的空白，鼓励翻译研究者与文化史研究者之间展开对话，通过查缺补漏弥补翻译史研究的不足。因此，该书既可视为翻译研究中“历史转向”的代表作，也可视为历史研究中“翻译转向”的代表作，无论对翻译研究还是历史研究都具有重要的学术价值。

Cultural Translation in Early Modern Europe is a collection of essays on translation from the perspective of historians. It contains 12 papers categorized into three parts, namely, translation and language, translation and culture, and translation and science. It aims to say more about the contrasts between cultures than between individual translators, more about long-term trends than about short-term processes, and more about the history of practice than about the history of theory. The second aim is to encourage a dialogue between workers in translation studies and in cultural history, and the third is to complement existing work on the history of translation by compensating for absences. Therefore, the book can be read as a representative work on historical turn in translation studies and one on translation turn in history studies, with significance in both translation studies and history studies.