Since publication over ten years ago, The Translator's Invisibility has provoked debate and controversy within the field of translation and become a classic text. Providing a fascinating account of the history of translation from the seventeenth century to the present day, Venuti shows how fluency prevailed over other translation strategies to shape the canon of foreign literat...(展开全部)

Since publication over ten years ago, "The Translator's Invisibility" has provoked debate and controversy within the field of translation and become a classic text. Providing a fascinating account of the history of translation from the seventeenth century to the present day, Venuti shows how fluency prevailed over other translation strategies to shape the canon of foreign liter...(展开全部)

The Translator's Invisibilty traces the history of translation from the seventeenth century to the present day. It shows how fluency prevailed over other translation strategies to shape the canon of foreign literatures in English, and investigates the cultural consequences of the domestic values which were simulateneously inscribed and masked in foreign texts during this per...(展开全部)

In AD 629, a Chinese monk named Xuan Zang set out for India on a quest for sacred texts. He returned with a caravan of twenty-two horses bearing Buddhist treasures and spent the last twenty years of his life in the Great Wild Goose Pagoda, in present-day Xian, translating the Sanskrit manuscripts into Chinese with a team of collaborators. In the twelfth century, scholars came t...(展开全部)

Horizon-expanding tales of how translators altered the course of world events 'Full of lively stories ... leaves the reader with an awed respect for the translator's task' Economist Would Hiroshima have been bombed if Japanese contained a phrase meaning 'no comment'? Is it alright for missionaries to replace the Bible's 'white as snow' with 'white as fungus' in places where sno...(展开全部)

Horizon-expanding tales of how translators altered the course of world events 'Full of lively stories ... leaves the reader with an awed respect for the translator's task' Economist Would Hiroshima have been bombed if Japanese contained a phrase meaning 'no comment'? Is it alright for missionaries to replace the Bible's 'white as snow' with 'white as fungus' in places where sno...(展开全部)

Australian Association for Byzantine Studies, 1982

"To quietly persevere in storing up what is learned, to continue studying without respite, to instruct others without growing weary--is this not me?" --Confucius Confucius is recognized as China's first and greatest teacher, and his ideas have been the fertile soil in which the Chinese cultural tradition has flourished. Now, here is a translation of the recorded thoughts and d...(展开全部)

安乐哲，1947年出生于加拿大多伦多，世界著名中西比较哲学家，国际知名汉学大师，山东省“儒学大家”， 孔子研究院特聘专家。曾任夏威夷大学哲学系教授，现任北京大学哲学系人文讲席教授，世界儒学文化研究联合会会长，国际儒学联合会副会长，尼山圣源书院顾问，北京中外文化交流研究基地顾问，北京外国语大学中华文化国际传播研究院外籍首席专家。 2013年因其对中国思想多年来的出色研究获得“孔子文化奖”。2016年，荣获第二届“会林文化奖”。2018年，荣获“文明之光·2018中国文化交流年度人物”；并荣获“北京大学燕园友谊奖”；2019年，荣获“杜威学术学会2019终身成就奖”；2021年，荣获“中国政府友谊奖”。安乐哲教授翻译了《论语》、《大学》、《中庸》、《道德经》、《孝经》、《淮南子》、《孙子兵法》等书而蜚声海内外，著有：《儒家角色伦理学》、《儒家角色伦理——...(展开全部)

1828. Robin Swift, orphaned by cholera in Canton, is brought to London by the mysterious Professor Lovell. There, he trains for years in Latin, Ancient Greek, and Chinese, all in preparation for the day he’ll enroll in Oxford University’s prestigious Royal Institute of Translation—also known as Babel. Babel is the world's center for translation and, more importantly, magic. Sil...(展开全部)