关键词: 儒经翻译, 儒学西传, 翻译"移植"论

Abstract: Confucius's remarks on “keji fuli” in The Analects have been a source of controversy throughout Chinese history. It thus remains an important yet unanswered question as to how Western translators over the past three centuries translated these remarks and why they translated in such ways. Through examining the translations of Confucius's words by representative translators in major Western languages, this article sorts out four types of translations with different and even conflicting interpretations. In addition, it analyzes the historical and personal impacts informing these translations, and evaluates them in the context of Western dissemination of Confucianism.

Key words: translations of Confucian works, dissemination of Confucianism in the West, translation as "transplantation"