This collection of papers from the first and second international conferences with the above title explores why early sinologists chose certain works for transl

This book is a biography of a remarkable Scottish missionary worker, Alexander Wylie, a classical nineteenth century artisan and autodidact with a gift and pass

This edited volume investigates translations from the languages of China into the languages of Western societies, from the 17th to the 20th centuries. Rather th

Against the historical background of Chinese translation in the West and the emergence of several prominent European translators of China, this book examines th

This book reconstructs Benjamin Bowen Carter’s (1771–1831) experience learning Chinese in Canton, describes his interactions with European sinologists, trac

Focusing on the field of study known as orientalism in the decades around 1900, this volume explores the history of the humanities through the prism of scholarl

This book represents an ambitious effort to bring leading Yijing scholars together to examine the globalisation and localisation of the 'Book of Changes' from c

In Transcultural Lyricism, Jane Qian Liu discusses the extent to which modern Chinese writer-translators borrowed from foreign literary works to create new ways

This collected volume studies the history of Western translation of premodern Chinese texts from the seventeenth to the twentieth century. A range of case-studi

Translation and Literature in East Asia: Between Visibility and Invisibility explores the issues involved in translation between Chinese, Japanese and Korean, a