Sher-shiueh Li（李奭學）received his MA in English Literature from Fu Jen University and his PhD in Comparative Literature from the University of Chicago. He is a Research Fellow at the Institute of Chinese Literature and Philosophy, Academia Sinica, Taiwan, with adjunct appointments at the Graduate Institute of Translation and Interpretation, Taiwan Normal University, and the Graduate Institute of Intercultural Studies, Fu Jen University. He has published several books in Chinese and English, including European Literature in Late Ming China, Jesuit Chreia in Late-Ming China (co-authored with Thierry Meynard), and Transwriting: Translated Literature and Late-Ming Jesuits.
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2022-12-10
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2025-11-25
Abstract
Joseph de Prémare was a French Jesuit who went to China in the reign of Emperor Kangxi. He was banished to Guangzhou by Emperor Yongzheng, who had been hostile to Catholicism ever since he was enthroned. In Guangzhou, Prémare translated eight poems from the Shijing into French, all being taken from the sections “Ya” and “Song”. He showed almost no interest in the poems from the more lyrical “Guofeng”. The poems he translated addressed his love of Chinese sage kings and their benevolent rule. His interpretations, typical of Jesuit figurism, were replete with intriguing intimations of Christian doctrine. Prémare employed poetic figurism to connect the Shijing to the Shenjing, or the Bible, in the eighteenth century.
Sher-shiueh Li.
馬若瑟與《詩經》[J]. Journal of Translation Studies. 2022, 6(2): 35-70
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