Accounting for the religionisation in Ku Hung-Ming's translations of Confucian classics: From culture and identity to narrative.
Ku Hung-Ming (1857–1928) was a unique thinker and translator, who translated Confucian classics into English in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries when his Chinese contemporaries engaged in introducing Western ideas into China. Drawing on narrative theory, this article focuses on the...
| Publicado en: | Neohelicon Vol. 52; no. 1; pp. 335 - 356 |
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