早期西方传教士对中国蒙学典籍的误读与阐释——以裨治文英译《三字经》为例

Western Missionaries’Misreading and Interpretation of Chinese Primary Education Classics--E.C.Bridgeman’s English Translation of Sanzijing

晚清时期,中国蒙学典籍的译介主要通过西方传教士完成。其中,美国传教士、汉学家裨治文通过«中国丛报»(1832-1851年)向英语世界译介了中国蒙学典籍«三字经»。由于有限的中文水平、传教士身份和“西方中心主义”思维方式的影响,译者在译介过程中误读了«三字经»的蒙学价值和儒学思想,弱化了«三字经»文化内涵的阐释。

In the late Qing Dynasty,English translation of Chinese Primary Education Classics is mostly done by Western missionaries.Among them,American missionary and sinologist E.C.Bridgeman introduced and translated Sanzijing on The Chinese Repository(1832-1852).Due to his limited grasp of the Chinese language,his identity as a missionary and the influence of“Western Centralism”,he misread its value in primary education and Confucianism and weakened interpretation of its cultural connotation.