Title: The Cultural Identity of Ku Hungming and His Translation of Confucian Classics: a Postcolonial Perspective
Hang Hon
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Hang Hon
Abstract
This paper probes into the cultural identity of Ku Hungming and his translation of Confucian classics from the postcolonial perspective. It is found that the cultural identity of a translator depends on a wide range of social and cultural factors and exerts a direct influence on his instance and interpretation of the source culture,his motives and intentions in the choice of texts to be translated as well as the translation strategies adopted.
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This paper probes into the cultural identity of Ku Hungming and his translation of Confucian classics from the postcolonial perspective. It is found that the cultural identity of a translator depends on a wide range of social and cultural factors and exerts a direct influence on his instance and interpretation of the source culture,his motives and intentions in the choice of texts to be translated as well as the translation strategies adopted.
Key concepts: Perspective (graphical), Identity (music), Interpretation (philosophy), Cultural identity, Translation (biology), Sociology, Aesthetics, Epistemology