Geography Translation and Its Influence on the Discipline Development in Modern China
The inception and development of geography in China bear close relationship with geography translation.Therefore,an ex-amination of the context of modem China's geography translation is conducive to exploring the development of China's geography disci-pline.Viewed from the influences of geography translation on China's geography discipline,the translation of western geographical knowledge in modem China went through three periods,i.e.,the early dissemination of geographical knowledge and the germination of geographical education in China from 1767 to 1860,the translation of geographical knowledge of western countries and geographical textbooks for primary and middle school students from 1861 to 1920,and the systematic translation of geography theories and the estab-lishment of geography discipline in higher education from 1921 to 1949.China's geography translation has contributed not only to the modernization of geography course system and textbooks,but also to the development of geographical academic research in China.
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