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" K2 n# a" ~6 L$ a7 Q) }John Fryer’s Contribution to Standardization of Translated Scientific Terminology in Modern China
9 \1 e: u. P" M# I: C. B. ]YANG Lifang: MA Student, School of Foreign Languages, Zhejiang University of! a3 e' Z8 f0 k) F. ?
Finance & Economics, Hangzhou, China.' A* W3 S5 Y( E1 w* O
, x- e4 c3 g4 tLI Changbao, Ph.D., Professor, School of Foreign Languages, Zhejiang University of3 i, P7 e3 Y" @
Finance & Economics, Hangzhou, China.) W, H+ ^# w+ {. g1 x
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Supported by National Social Sciences Foundation Project (16BYY011) .
2 t& }6 y, @; p! S8 }5 t( pReceived 5 October 2017; accepted 8 January 2018
+ l2 [( w7 ]6 d$ F- ~# LPublished online 26 January 2018' Q- | B [% J
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Abstract
' N) ~" d- d% V% E$ o) O% XJohn Fryer was a British missionary in the late Qing0 \. Y2 ` X7 k
Dynasty who came to China and was employed by The
. f. f# g0 Z6 F# h8 ATranslation Department of Kiangnan Arsenal. He has been
( n: q, U+ c' [7 M" h0 tengaged in the translation work for over 28 years, not
. }# k5 T) _7 F O% Konly having translated a great deal of Western scientific) A# k( l9 P' w; K# Z- Y7 N( z6 E
works into Chinese, but also having contributed greatly6 v+ {+ h0 l( K% G
to the standardization of the scientific terminology8 ? J! O# S' X- D3 |8 V
translation. This paper first attempts to probe into Fryer’s7 M- f2 M8 {( p% e
scientific translation practice and his translation ideas,
) B; I5 o, ~- m$ k9 F. b. Vand then points out that Fryer’s major contributions to the
% Y4 ?# {7 X L: d4 estandardization of the scientific terminology translation9 j& K4 | d, J& C9 z/ m
in Modern China are that the magazine Ko-chih-hui-pien$ E5 r u% I# c: Q
he established had helped greatly with the popularization% Z1 n$ w) {$ L1 S E% q
of modern scientific knowledge, that the book Mirroring" |6 k. p4 r. w+ f$ N3 G
the Origins of Chemistry he translated had paved the way3 R4 s# {: z) k
for the term translation of modern chemical elements, and& e E( d4 c" i/ l T& R, r4 c
that various lists of bilingual technical terms he made, to a( E& W& P( S* {/ x) U+ t
great degree, had standardized the translation of scientific
# J7 v! j% o& s* uterminology. j" P' M# J) ^4 E1 W1 @& p. i. R
Key words: John Fryer; Scientific translation;. L8 h8 s9 K5 X1 N* K$ {
Standardization of terminology translation
6 Y0 R5 t X; Q- wYang, L. F., & Li, C. B. (2018). John Fryer’s Contribution to c2 |8 ?# x8 g( g( d" T
Standardization of Translated Scientific Terminology in Modern9 I+ t- k% z' G; p1 j* f
China. Studies in Literature and Language, 16 (1), 7-13. Available
8 U1 N' W- t) Q0 u% Z: _0 Q* Tfrom: http://www.cscanada.net/index.php/sll/article/view/10213
4 T% k; N) K4 @( h) `; ~DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3968/10213: U6 _ o+ C/ Z" @ S
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- p9 v8 q$ Y. t& m% e, q0 L: |* EINTRODUCTION
5 \! r, S# M; ~) t9 O9 SJohn Fryer (1839-1928) was an English missionary and
& k/ q# Y. G9 na great translator in the late Qing dynasty (1840-1912).
F7 ]5 E) |) _Driven by his intense interest in China, Fryer came to: K( V3 V. f b) @
Hong Kong in the year of 1861 to serve as the dean of, f/ v4 e5 G8 x/ h
St. Paul’s College. And in 1868, Fryer was employed, b& R9 z% e2 h4 v: _
by The Translation Department of Kiangnan Arsenal as6 l! H+ Z. k9 D$ u
an editor and chief translator. During the 28 years on+ a, P t, `8 i. ]
his job, with the help of his colleague Xu Shou (1818-
2 E' d O% ^! t+ l) ^1884), Fryer translated a great deal of Western scientific
- H' d& a% _* T/ ]+ }( X# b# rworks and illustrated his translation ideas. As a foreigner,) ~; f% m" z4 P% G; [7 V
Fryer adopted the Buddhist technique of oral instruction., y! c! t: M: x# ^
Namely, sitting with his Chinese assistant, Fryer dictated+ A7 }* D- }! b! w) q0 x
to him sentence by sentence, while the Chinese assistant2 w3 V" x, g& e) `$ g
would transcribe what Fryer said into literary Chinese,5 j2 j% ~. b9 S, a% B
revise the manuscript and correct errors. By this means,
( d% [ u6 A2 ]) m: L w! \Fryer translated more than one hundred of Western
8 t' [8 @4 j7 [books that made him the most productive one among the+ i& x e, ?2 J
foreign translators of that time (Wang, 1998). For Fryer,
" m$ `5 _( p$ J1 t, utranslating Western scientific books into Chinese was a
3 `, l$ q# y, [* v& E2 cnoble work which could help accelerate the process of
. A4 i% B j1 K3 o0 ^( p4 [people’s enlightenment of science (Chen, 2000, p.83).
$ T j. x; i) j" U3 _In addition to his achievements in translation, Fryer6 m1 f! O/ W) G' a! v
also paid much attention to the dissemination of Western
5 w# w+ Q; ^, Yscience and the standardization of translated scientific
) U/ ^5 {) d* Q0 u. |7 Eterms in Modern China. He set up the first scientific
: X$ @+ c8 {5 `6 \, P/ L0 @magazine Ko-chih-hui-pien (1875), and donated for the1 a# R# p' B" M$ F v4 \
establishment of Shanghai Deaf-mutes School. Another
; j% n9 f; w1 p! ~contribution made by Fryer was that he translated a series( }4 l$ g V1 _+ E0 N
of chemistry books which filled the blanks of chemistry in
\) |: D/ p: K/ MModern China.
( _# n/ v5 E3 I0 ?An American scholar Dagenais (2010) published
" k9 }# k! c& V/ @: j5 [The John Fryer Papers, which collected a great deal of0 f( a2 |. {, f* P
travel notes, letters and essays written by Fryer, providing
! t9 d( ]2 @9 E& E; Za lot of valuable information for the latter studies. In
4 z9 c' |; q5 j3 Q0 C, [John Fryer: The Introduction of Western Science and* ?2 H) m: S" J9 Y ^
Technology into Nineteenth-Century China, another |
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