作　者：李松 田佳璐
关键词：卫礼贤；《中国文学》；翻译阐释；经典阐释学；文明互鉴
摘　要：

新教传教士卫礼贤1926年编纂的《中国文学》是德国汉学界的第三部中国文学史。在《中国文学》中，他大量选录《论语》《尚书》《诗经》等儒家经典，以西方文化视角进行创造化转译和诠释：阐释《论语》的形而上追求，解读《尚书》的神秘色彩，译解《诗经》的天命崇拜，彰显儒道元典的终极价值。作为中德文化之间的摆渡者，卫礼贤“融通东西方思想”的文化观念深刻影响了其翻译阐释的方法。就翻译研究的文化视角而言，卫礼贤并非简单的语言转换者，而是中德乃至中西文化的互鉴者与调适者，其《中国文学》的经典诠释承继了16-18世纪传教士西译中国经典的传统，反映了19世纪末20世纪初传教士汉学研究的新变，为德国汉学以及中国文化在德语世界的传播作出了重要贡献。考察卫礼贤在中德文化交流中的翻译实践及其文化阐释，有助于理解跨文化语境中文明互鉴的实现路径与思想意义。

 

On Canonical Selection and Translational Hermeneutics In Richard Wilhelm's Die chinesische Literatur

Li Song， Tian Jialu （Wuhan University）

Abstract  Die chinesische Literatur, compiled by the German Protestant missionary Richard Wilhelm in 1926, stands as the third literary history of China in German Sinology. In Die chinesische Literatur, Wilhelm draws extensively on Confucian classics including LunYu (The Analects), ShangShu (The Book of Documents) and ShiJing (The Book of Songs), offering creative retranslations and interpretations from a Western cultural perspective. He elaborates the metaphysical pursuit in LunYu, unfolds the mystical implications of ShangShu, explicates the worship of Mandate of Heaven in ShiJing, and thereby illuminates the ultimate values embodied in the foundational Confucian classics. As a cultural mediator between China and Germany, Wilhelm owes his translation and interpretation strategy much to his cultural outlook of "östlichen und westlichen Denkens vereinigt werden können". From the cultural perspective of translation studies, Wilhelm was not merely a linguistic translator but an intermediary and mediator of cultural exchange between China and Germany, and even between China and the West. His classical interpretations in Die chinesische Literatur inherit the tradition of missionary translations of Chinese canonical texts from the 16th to 18th centuries, and incorporate the new developments in missionary Sinology of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, making significant contributions to German Sinology and the dissemination of Chinese culture in the Germanspeaking world. An analysis of Wilhelm's translation practices and cultural interpretations in Sino-German cultural exchanges thus helps to clarify the pathways and intellectual significance of civilizational mutual learning in cross-cultural contexts.

Key words  Richard Wilhelm; Die chinesische Literatur; translational hermeneutics; classical hermeneutics; civilization exchanges and mutual learning

 

■ 作者简介  李松，武汉大学文学院教授，湖北 武汉 430072；田佳璐，武汉大学文学院博士研究生。

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