The Forgotten Translator: Ma Yifu and his Chinese Translation of Don Quixote (1905)
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https://doi.org/10.3989/anacervantinos.2021.006Keywords:
Don Quixote in China, Ma Yifu, «Mr. Ji’s biography», Extratextual Factors of TranslationAbstract
Until today, most Cervantist studies support the idea that Lin Shu (1852-1924) is the first translator of Don Quixote into Chinese. However, we had ignored another Chinese translator for a long time, Ma Yifu (1883-1967) who translated Don Quixote, long before Lin Shu, in 1905. In fact, in 2008, the Japanese intellectual, Tarumoto Teruo had already discovered his translation published in Independence weekly in 1913. But the misconception is so popular and ingrained that is still widely used in many studies to the present. On the other hand, Lin Shu is much more popular than Ma Yifu in China, which makes more difficult to correct this entrenched misconception. The present work focuses on presenting a general vision of the life of Ma Yifu and his translation of Don Quixote, «The biography of Mr. Ji». We desire to pay special attention to the extratextual factors of translation, which configures its sociocultural context of creation and reception, trying to fill the little-known area of receiving Don Quixote in China.
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