Lessons from Chinese History: Translation as a Collaborative and Multi-Stage Process
Lessons from Chinese History: Translation as a Collaborative and Multi-Stage Process
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中国历史的教训：翻译是一个协作和多阶段的过程
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2010
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James St. André
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James St. André
本文探讨了在佛教影响下以及晚清时期翻译实践的发展如何突出了翻译研究中两个被忽视的领域。首先，翻译在多大程度上是一个协作过程。在这两个时期，2到1000人之间的合作是常态。然而，世纪的“经典”翻译研究所提出的模式将翻译过程理论化为由一个单独的个体完成。近年来翻译公司的增长表明，合作在今天仍然很普遍，但在研究方面仍然是一个“黑洞”。第二，在中国的两个时期，通过“枢纽”语言的接力翻译在翻译过程中发挥了重要作用。同样，这是一个在翻译研究中被淡化的现象;接力被视为一种必要的邪恶，在某种意义上复制了翻译本身的耻辱。这两种现象值得进一步研究，并对翻译教学有一定的启示。
This paper examines how the development of translation practice under the influence of Buddhism, and also in the late Qing (1890-1911), serve to highlight two neglected areas of research in Translation Studies. First, there is the issue of the extent to which translation is a collaborative process. In both time periods, collaboration among 2 to 1000 people was the norm. Yet the models proposed in “classic” Translation Studies in the twentieth century theorized the translation process as being accomplished by a lone individual. The recent growth of translation companies has shown that collaboration is still common today, yet this remains a “black hole” in terms of research. Second, in both periods in China, relay translation through “pivot” languages played a vital role in the translation process. Again, this is a phenomenon that has been downplayed in Translation Studies; relay has been seen as a necessary evil, in a sense replicating the stigma attached to translation itself. These two phenomena thus deserve further study and have implications for translation pedagogy.