哲学家视野和致用型翻译--冯友兰英译《庄子》的副文本考察

A Philosopher's Vision and an Application-Oriented Approach:An Investigation into the Paratexts of Fung Yu-Lan's English Rendition of the Zhuangzi

冯友兰译本作为中国本土首部《庄子》译本意义非凡,但其评介却鲜少见诸期刊。本文通过副文本分析与译文分析的相互印证,考察了哲学家冯友兰英译《庄子》的历史语境、翻译目的和翻译方法。研究表明,冯友兰的《庄子》英译是“以西释中哲学格义”的致用型翻译,他以“格义法”英译《庄子》是历史语境介入和译者学术视野介入的结果,我们不宜简单地将其译本定性为“西化的《庄子》”。

As the first translation of Zhuangzi by a Chinese translator,Fung Yu-Lan's 1926 English rendition of the Chinese classic deserves special attention from translation scholars and yet has received few academic reviews so far.This paper subjects both the text and the paratexts of Fung's version to a mutually illuminating analysis,in an attempt to update our understanding of the historical context in which it was produced,the purpose it was meant to serve and the method of translation that Fung had adopted.The study finds that Fung Yu-Lan's translation of Zhuangzi is not only informed with his unique philosophical vision,but is also meant to promote the Chinese hermeneutic method of geyi(namely,analogical interpretation).In this sense,it is application-oriented and should by no means be read as“a Westernized interpretation of Zhuangzi.”