What is it about?
For the purpose of successful communication, the fundamental elements in Chinese legal tradition should be given more attention.
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Why is it important?
The default narrative features in ancient Chinese legal works are firstly given a detailed explanation, then the challenges to the Western sinologists in re-narrating ancient Chinese legal stories, especially for the purposes of constructing a “moral” world for the Western readers.
Perspectives
A contextualized narrative strategy is proposed to be applied in translating ancient Chinese legal works. For a successful communication, it requires on the part of the narrator a degree of creative adaptation.
Mr. Yongjun Dai
Anhui University of Technology
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This page is a summary of: Translating ancient Chinese legal works, Babel Revue internationale de la traduction / International Journal of Translation / Revista Internacional de Traducción, September 2019, John Benjamins,
DOI: 10.1075/babel.00111.dai.
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