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发表于2025-02-16
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有些沧桑变换感的。另外,当读者在上帝视角看着当初清庭和官僚们的态度,就会觉得很可笑也很可怜。大清亡了?
评分真的太好看了!此处立誓要写出一本差不多好看的!
评分“以小见大”的微观史作品,主角是早已成为历史注脚的两位译者。作者从史料中回溯了小斯当东和李自标的一生,从两位译者的角度分析了当时中英两国的文化碰撞。前者因怕遭迫害而离开中国,从此以后再也没有来过中国,后者则在东躲西藏中度完余生。翻译并不是一件容易的事,尤其是在两国外交之时,译者首当其冲,两头不讨好,稍有不慎便会酿成不可挽回的后果,他们的选择甚至可以影响两个国家的关系。但译者又是极易被忽视的群体。即使是在今日,李和小斯当东的经历也极为不平凡,而两人之间的跨越山海的友谊则证明:只要我们认真倾听、共情和了解彼此,我们就能一起创建互相连接、和平对话的世界。
评分有些沧桑变换感的。另外,当读者在上帝视角看着当初清庭和官僚们的态度,就会觉得很可笑也很可怜。大清亡了?
评分可以算是心目中全球史与微观史结合又一个典型案例了,不只是跨文化的故事,更有大问题的关怀。
Henrietta Harrison is professor of modern Chinese studies at the University of Oxford and the Stanley Ho Tutorial Fellow in Chinese History at Pembroke College. Her books include The Man Awakened from Dreams and The Missionary’s Curse and Other Tales from a Chinese Catholic Village. She lives in Oxford, England.
The 1793 British embassy to China, which led to Lord George Macartney’s fraught encounter with the Qianlong emperor, has often been viewed as a clash of cultures fueled by the East’s disinterest in the West. In The Perils of Interpreting, Henrietta Harrison presents a more nuanced picture, ingeniously shifting the historical lens to focus on Macartney’s two interpreters at that meeting—Li Zibiao and George Thomas Staunton. Who were these two men? How did they intervene in the exchanges that they mediated? And what did these exchanges mean for them? From Galway to Chengde, and from political intrigues to personal encounters, Harrison reassesses a pivotal moment in British-China relations. She shows that there were Chinese who were familiar with the West, but growing tensions endangered those who embraced both cultures and would eventually culminate in the Opium Wars.
Harrison demonstrates that the Qing court’s ignorance about the British did not simply happen, but was manufactured through the repression of cultural go-betweens like Li and Staunton. She traces Li’s influence as Macartney’s interpreter, the pressures Li faced in China as a result, and his later years in hiding. Staunton interpreted successfully for the British East India Company in Canton, but as Chinese anger grew against British imperial expansion in South Asia, he was compelled to flee to England. Harrison contends that in silencing expert voices, the Qing court missed an opportunity to gain insights that might have prevented a losing conflict with Britain.
Uncovering the lives of two overlooked figures, The Perils of Interpreting offers a valuable argument for cross-cultural understanding in a better-connected world.
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