The Overseas Reincarnation of Traditional Culture:A Case Study of French Translation of Traditional Chinese Medicine Classics
France's status as Europe's hub for the education and research of Traditional Chinese Medicine(TCM)has been established and sustained with its long history of Chinese-French translation of TCM classics.This translational history can be roughly divided into three phases of development:the collection and partial rendition of original materials from the 17th to the 19th century;the TCM research-serving translation from the early 20th century to the 1960s;and a refocusing on the TCM classics and the medical tradition they embody from the 1970s to the present.Identifying the subjective and objective factors that help to shape up the developmental trajectory of such an"application-oriented,research-driven project,"and throwing light on the universal significance TCM enjoys as a component of traditional Chinese culture,this paper stresses the need to re-set the study of TCM's cultural dimension within a context broader than that of Chinese academia alone.
Traditional Chinese Medicine classicsFrancetranslationtraditional culture
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