2015 9 57-88 (intercultural-discipline) 2014 12 26 2015 3 10 2015 6 26 E-mail: fcpan@ntnu.edu.tw NSC 99-2410-H-003-132-MY3
Compilation and Translation Review Vol. 8, No. 2 (September 2015), 57-88 Confucius Translated, and Filial Piety in Transwriting: Early Missionaries Translations of the Xiaojing Feng-Chuan Pan This paper traces the history of the western missionaries contribution to sinology via synchronic and diachronic investigations of their translations of Confucian texts, especially the Book of Filial Piety (Xiaojing). Here the author is attempting to redefine Western sinology as an intercultural discipline and the horizon of an ongoing dialogue. This means that Chinese historians of sinology need to go beyond the simplified duality of East and West and study Western sinology in greater depth. This would entail, among other things, the need for greater scholarly attention to the connection between the early Jesuits and the Protestant missionaries in late imperial China. Keywords: missionaries, Confucius, translation of classics, Book of Filial Piety, intercultural dialogue, Western sinology Received: December 26, 2014; Revised: March 10, 2015; Accepted: June 26, 2015 Feng-Chuan Pan, Associate Professor, Department of East Asian Studies, National Taiwan Normal University, E-mail: fcpan@ntnu.edu.tw
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60 2008 14-26 (wirkungsgeschichtliche Resonanz) (Michele Ruggieri) 1593 2008 131-142 1667-1668 (the Jesuit Reading) (Meynard,
61 2011, pp. 4-5) 1687 (Philippe Couplet) (Confucius Sinarum Philosophus sive Scientia sinensis latine exposita [Confucius, the Philosopher of China. The Chinese learning presented in Latin] ) (Scientia sinensis latine exposita) (Meynard, 2011, pp. 3-12; Mungello, 1983, pp. 516-539) (Ludovico Magno, Regi Christianissimo [Louis the Great, Christian King] ) (Eximio Missionum Orientalium & Litterariae Reipublicae bono [for the Highest benefit Oriental Missions and Republic of Letters] ) (Couplet, 1687, cover page; Meynard, 2011, p. 81) 2011 103-104 (Europa Scientia) (Sinensis Scientia)
62 (Kieu kium xam) (Sinicae Historiae, 1658) (Tabula chronologica monarchiae Sinicae) 2008 138-141 (Scientia sinensis, Chinese Knowledge, Chinese Learning) (Confucii Vita [Life of Confucius]) (Sanctus) Couplet, 1687, p. 54 2011 108 Lee, 2007, pp. 109-135 (De Christiana expeditione apud Sinas suscepta ab
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68 (les œuvres littéraires) 2 (les œuvres Impériales) 1779 2010a 67-95 Amiot et al., 1779, pp. 28-76 (Louis XIV, 1638-1715) (Mathématiciens du Roy) (les missionnaire de Pé-kin) (Societatis JESU Missionario) Hiao-King, ou Livre Canonique sur la Piété filiale (Doctrine ancienne et nouvelle des Chinois sur la piété filiale) 2 (Doctrine ancienne et nouvelle des Chinois sur la piété filiale)
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72 (the Sacred Books of the East) (the Sacred Books of China) 1879 Deus 2011a 129-158
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