A Study of the Chinese Translation of the Concept “Well-Being” in On Liberty from Conceptual History Perspective
Year: 2023
Type: article
Abstract: The Victorian political philosophy classic On Liberty (1859) has been recognized as a masterpiece that influenced an era. The earliest Chinese translations were published in 1903, 30 years after the pass away of its writer, John Stuart Mill, and were translated into China by the famous educator Ma Junwu and the famous thinker Yan Fu in the Late Qing Dynasty. This paper is a descriptive and interpretative study of these two Chinese translations. Based on conceptual history and with the corpus tool to investigate the Chinese translation of the important concept “well-being” in On Liberty. The analysis of the Chinese translation of the concept “well-being” in On Liberty is investigated from its origin, evolution, and the establishment of its final translation establish.
Source: Open Journal of Social Sciences
Institution: Inner Mongolia University
Language: English
Subfield: Language and Linguistics
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W4385615902