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John Fryer’s Contribution to Standardization of Translated Scientific Terminology in Modern China. G, I2 p. F' B; n# `
YANG Lifang: MA Student, School of Foreign Languages, Zhejiang University of4 q, e7 u$ m3 L- k
Finance & Economics, Hangzhou, China.
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% N& z1 N" _3 [$ G5 q4 {2 _LI Changbao, Ph.D., Professor, School of Foreign Languages, Zhejiang University of
+ l1 z. s) ^3 H |2 u8 gFinance & Economics, Hangzhou, China.
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, S( [: z: H1 e1 K" m- DSupported by National Social Sciences Foundation Project (16BYY011) .7 w6 @5 x6 T5 \/ F: r5 y4 ?
Received 5 October 2017; accepted 8 January 20184 l1 Y; u3 ~: F/ j
Published online 26 January 2018
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Abstract$ e- l2 A0 M, d* q% |3 |, ^
John Fryer was a British missionary in the late Qing
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Translation Department of Kiangnan Arsenal. He has been- ^ J1 J8 {' r8 `9 a
engaged in the translation work for over 28 years, not
/ N0 q1 k# R B/ @! t1 ~' v/ C$ u& Fonly having translated a great deal of Western scientific9 r2 x6 g8 }( H& l+ D
works into Chinese, but also having contributed greatly
% W2 } i/ g& m7 Qto the standardization of the scientific terminology
; s/ |0 A- ?0 s( s+ ytranslation. This paper first attempts to probe into Fryer’s
8 m; D1 k5 h, m/ a8 Kscientific translation practice and his translation ideas,4 Q; c: ?; j0 o; p$ J/ B
and then points out that Fryer’s major contributions to the2 x8 o( V6 f2 o
standardization of the scientific terminology translation3 R# G: V G a+ M
in Modern China are that the magazine Ko-chih-hui-pien: _- P- y2 s Y- Y
he established had helped greatly with the popularization
4 P4 P! r' F0 D* e8 d: k# `3 @of modern scientific knowledge, that the book Mirroring7 `' n0 n7 A& B
the Origins of Chemistry he translated had paved the way) p% e2 V' U" d; l8 N$ q% n9 E+ \
for the term translation of modern chemical elements, and
2 K6 C s7 S/ G1 q0 b% N+ N a+ ithat various lists of bilingual technical terms he made, to a
, n; x# \! X' Rgreat degree, had standardized the translation of scientific
3 U5 ? y, U" C3 H$ }! Eterminology.! k6 P+ J! F C, ?! l) ]$ o
Key words: John Fryer; Scientific translation;/ E& C8 |% Q! x8 H- ]
Standardization of terminology translation
% n3 g* ]9 v& u0 c) AYang, L. F., & Li, C. B. (2018). John Fryer’s Contribution to
* _2 l+ U2 M% a2 zStandardization of Translated Scientific Terminology in Modern
0 e9 @. a7 a0 \) Q: m' j0 OChina. Studies in Literature and Language, 16 (1), 7-13. Available
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DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3968/10213
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INTRODUCTION
) a* X3 R; t. }* T$ NJohn Fryer (1839-1928) was an English missionary and
/ W( U" c" o, P7 N/ c1 ea great translator in the late Qing dynasty (1840-1912).( x1 i( F+ _1 n( m8 m
Driven by his intense interest in China, Fryer came to
) @( X# ?& k$ r$ p- q# SHong Kong in the year of 1861 to serve as the dean of
8 Y' a4 I) h8 q8 J( k" CSt. Paul’s College. And in 1868, Fryer was employed
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an editor and chief translator. During the 28 years on
3 i# M+ ^# w9 |' I1 A1 g5 Y) |his job, with the help of his colleague Xu Shou (1818-+ l! J+ }8 F) U. r3 ?0 \2 i, Y
1884), Fryer translated a great deal of Western scientific. [5 S: y: Y! r
works and illustrated his translation ideas. As a foreigner,
. F+ i: B( n: ~Fryer adopted the Buddhist technique of oral instruction.* \! x2 l" ?( A# ?( ~/ z" x) F
Namely, sitting with his Chinese assistant, Fryer dictated! I! x7 S( b! c9 g
to him sentence by sentence, while the Chinese assistant& ]! F G. r3 q8 w' s
would transcribe what Fryer said into literary Chinese,1 _1 }0 X3 z3 ~( u" x
revise the manuscript and correct errors. By this means," N) R: | ~3 a7 W; I; {2 X
Fryer translated more than one hundred of Western
5 E, A) f8 B, ~books that made him the most productive one among the
+ i- w4 h6 F9 _* b/ k- u/ Pforeign translators of that time (Wang, 1998). For Fryer,
" s# d( l' @/ I* e7 v* t. t, k) ~translating Western scientific books into Chinese was a& I2 {% ^0 d0 g% {, J$ e
noble work which could help accelerate the process of
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In addition to his achievements in translation, Fryer" y: J! T; ^1 ~' Q5 ~
also paid much attention to the dissemination of Western
) F2 n" B! q) R* J6 l/ sscience and the standardization of translated scientific; d$ Z9 C9 g9 z. Z2 K% }
terms in Modern China. He set up the first scientific
- o! ?- r3 Q( P" Emagazine Ko-chih-hui-pien (1875), and donated for the
) ~& j' J: Y. p% P' b8 destablishment of Shanghai Deaf-mutes School. Another
. Y! v8 D# ~. N" `/ pcontribution made by Fryer was that he translated a series
. S; i# w: D! b5 Cof chemistry books which filled the blanks of chemistry in, Q! a* A5 ~% {, p: x
Modern China.0 s; S+ \. D$ U
An American scholar Dagenais (2010) published7 [0 k! f+ e1 j/ h
The John Fryer Papers, which collected a great deal of
* L2 F1 X) J" k, j- \* p2 D; ztravel notes, letters and essays written by Fryer, providing$ E9 a3 V" \4 _
a lot of valuable information for the latter studies. In" m& D& Q! e. C2 A
John Fryer: The Introduction of Western Science and
/ O. P% K' n1 q: q0 B' N; _Technology into Nineteenth-Century China, another |
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