Translating Science : The Transmission of Western Chemistry into Late Imperial China, 1840-1900 / David C. Wright.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wright, David, 1947 December 5- author.

Series:

Sinica Leidensia ; Volume 48.

Sinica Leidensia Series ; Volume 48

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Chemistry--Study and teaching--China--History--19th century.

Chemistry.

Chemical literature--Translations into Chinese.

Chemical literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (584 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Leiden, Netherlands : Brill, [2000]

Summary:

"How did the Chinese in the nineteenth century deal with the enormous influx of Western science? What were the patterns behind this watershed in Chinese intellectual history?" "This work deals with those responsible for the translations of science, the major issues they were confronted with, and their struggles; the Chinese translators' views of its overpowering influence on, and interaction with their own great tradition, those of the missionary-translators who used natural theology to propagate the Gospel, and those of John Fryer, a 'secular missionary', who founded the Shanghai Polytechnic and edited the Chinese Scientific Magazine." "With due attention for the techniques of translation, the formation of new terms, the mechanisms behind the 'struggle for survival' between the, in this case, chemical terms, all amply illustrated at the hand of original texts." "The final chapter charts the intellectual influence of Western science, the role of the scientific metaphor in political discourse, and the translation of science from a collection of mere 'techniques' to a source of political inspiration."--Jacket.

Contents:

Intro

Title Page

Copyright Page

Dedication

Table of Contents

List of figures and tables

List of appendices and bibliographies

Acknowledgements

Abbreviations

Introduction

I. THE MATRIX OF TRANSLATION

1.1 Introduction

1.2 Traditional Chinese conceptions of nature

1.3 The Jesuit transmission of chemical knowledge

1.4 The kaozheng movement in Jiangnan

1.5 The Chinese origins of Western science

1.6 Science and the Macartney Mission

1.7 Foreign aggression and the 'Foreign Matters' Movement

1.8 Conclusion

II. TRANSLATION AS DISCOVERY

2.1 A living science tradition

2.2 Xu Shou

2.3 Xu Jianyin

2.4 Translation as discovery

III. TRANSLATION AS EVANGELISM

3.1 Introduction

3.2 Paley in China

3.3 Bowu tongshu

3.4 Gewu tanyuan

3.5 Conclusion

IV. THE TRANSLATOR AS SECULAR MISSIONARY

4.1 The call to China

4.2 The lost missionary

4.3 Thesecularmissionary

4.4 Conclusion

V. SCIENCE AS PUBLIC SPECTACLE

5.1 Introduction

5.2 The early Shanghai Polytechnic

5.3 The revived Shanghai Polytechnic

5.4 Conclusion

VI. SCIENCE IN POPULAR JOURNALISM

6.1 Introduction

6.2 Liuhe congtan

6.3 Jiaohui xinbao and Wanguo gongbao

6.4 Zhong-Xi wenjian lu

6.5 Gezhi huibian

6.6 Gezhi xinbao

6.7 The Hundred Days' Reform Movement

6.8 Yaquan zazhi

6.9 Conclusion

VII. ON TRANSLATION

7.1 Translation and change

7.2 Matching meanings

7.3 Translation equivalence sets

7.4 Matching semantic entropies

7.5 Methods of translating terms

7.6 The organisation of translation

7.7 The translation of scientific texts

7.8 Conclusion

VIII. TRANSLATION AS AUTHORITY

8.1 The authority of science

8.2 The development of chemical nomenclature

8.3 The textbook as authority

8.4 Bowu xinbian and Gewu rumen.

8.5 Huaxue chujie and Huaxue jianyuan

8.6 Huaxue zhinan and Huaxue shanyuan

8.7 The production of science books

8.8 Conclusion

IX. SCIENCE AS A NEW BRANCH OF LEARNING

9.1 Introduction

9.2 The Beijing Tongwenguan

9.3 The Tongwenguan in Shanghai and Guangzhou

9.4 Fuzhou Shipyard School

9.5 Private academies

9.6 Missionary schools

9.7 Conclusion

X. THE SURVIVAL OF THE FITTEST TERMS

10.1 Introduction

10.2 Terms as logotypes

10.3 Terms as meme products

10.4 The translation of the chemical elements

10.5 'Running their own ways'

10.6 Yaquan zazhi and Huaxue yuhui

10.7 The evolutionary struggle between terms

10.8 Factors for lexical survival

XI. TRANSLATION AS INSPIRATION

11.1 Introduction

11.2 Kang Youwei and the compassionate ether

11.3 Tan Sitong and the cosmic ether

11.4 Science and scepticism

11.5 Science and metaphor

11.6 Science and reform

XII. TRANSLATING SCIENCE

12.1 Introduction

12.2 Models of transmission

12.3 Matrices of translation

12.4 Linguistic aspects of transmission

12.5 Institutional and individual responses

12.6 The significance of practice

12.7 The purposes of translation

12.8 The culture of translation

12.9 Science and national salvation

APPENDICES

BIBLIOGRAPHIES

INDEX.

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Print version: Wright, David C. Translating Science

ISBN:

9789004489516

OCLC:

1291318859