Text, Context, and Dual Contextualization: Personal Reflections on a Thick Translation of Gulliverâs Travels

Te-hsing Shan

Text, Context, and Dual Contextualization: Personal Reflections on a Thick Translation of Gulliverâs Travels

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Te-hsing Shan Institute of European and American Studies, Academia Sinica

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Gulliverâs Travels was introduced into the Chinese-speaking world in 1872. Ever since, it has been one of the most popular translations/mistranslations in Chinese translation history. In 1997, the National Science Council in Taiwan launched the Annotated Translation Projects of the Classics in the Humanities and Social Sciences. Several apparatuses were required for such a project: a critical introduction, annotations, a chronology of the author, and references. As a scholar-cum-translator, I believe that a translator should better serve his target audience by informing them about the reception history of a particular text not only in its source context, but also in its target context. The translation project of Gulliverâs Travels provides me with an excellent opportunity to carry out my theory of dual contextualization, which is derived from my years of translation and my exposure to contemporary literary, cultural, and translation theories. This paper is a self-reflection of a scholar-cum-translator whose thick translation of Gulliverâs Travels intends to provide a unique Chinese version of this literary classic.

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China and Its Others

Knowledge Transfer through Translation, 1829-2010

Series:Â Approaches to Translation Studies, Volume: 34Â andÂ Approaches to Translation Studies Online, Volume: 34

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Print Publication Date:: 01 Jan 2012

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