title: Translations of W. S. Jevons in China in the Late Qing Dynasty
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metadata.value: Borokh, Olga N.
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metadata.value: 2022-11-14T16:50:01Z
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metadata.value: 2022-09
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metadata.value: Borokh O. N. Translations of W. S. Jevons in China in the Late Qing Dynasty. Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. Asian and African Studies, 2022, vol. 14, issue 3, pp. 558–576. https://doi.org/10.21638/spbu13.2022.311 (In Russian)
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metadata.value: https://doi.org/10.21638/spbu13.2022.311
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metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/38563
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metadata.value: The paper examines the history of Chinese translations of the works of the British economist
  W. S. Jevons in the late nineteenth — early twentieth centuries as part of the process of introduction
  of Western scientific knowledge to China. The attention is focused on the translations of
  Jevons’s Primer of Political Economy and his book The State in Relation to Labor. The terminological
  features of Chinese translations of these works are analyzed, including the searches for
  equivalents of modern scientific vocabulary in the heritage of Chinese culture. Jevons’s textbook
  was translated by Joseph Edkins and Yan Fu, who proposed their methods of adapting the text to
  the perception of the Chinese reader. The paper demonstrates that Edkins’s translation faithfully
  followed the original and used Chinese terminology available at that time. The clarity of Jevons’s
  textbook contributed to the dissemination of elementary knowledge of Western economics in
  China. The Policy to Enrich the Nation and Support the People served in China as one of the earliest
  sources of information about Adam Smith, his concept of division of labor, the theory of
  exchange, the theory of wages, and the principles of taxation. Multiple versions of hieroglyphic
  transliteration of Jevons’s name obstructed the formation of comprehensive vision of his legacy in China, therefore one of the objectives of the paper was to collect all available information
  about Chinese translations of the economic works of the British scholar. Jevons’s theory of the
  impact of natural factors on economic cycles influenced Liang Qichao, who compared it with
  ancient Chinese ideas about the relationship of famine and natural disasters with location of
  celestial bodies. After the translation of the Primer of Political Economy the focus of attention
  shifted to Jevons’s works in industrial legislation and finances.
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metadata.value: ru
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metadata.name: dc.publisher
metadata.value: St Petersburg State University
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metadata.value: Vestnik of St Petersburg University. Asian and African Studies;Volume 14; Issue 3
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Western learning
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: political economy
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metadata.value: translation of economic text
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metadata.value: terminology
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metadata.value: Chinese tradition
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: cultural adaptation
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metadata.value: Translations of W. S. Jevons in China in the Late Qing Dynasty
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