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‘Laissez-faire’ or Active Intervention? The Nature of the British and Foreign Bible Society's Patronage of the Translation of the Chinese Union Versions1

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 March 2010

GEORGE KAM WAH MAK
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Abstract

This paper investigates the nature of the British and Foreign Bible Society's (BFBS) patronage of the translation of the Chinese Union Versions (CUVs), the largest Chinese Protestant Bible translation project initiated by the western Protestant churches in the nineteenth century. Drawing on André Lefevere's concept of patronage, it delves into how the BFBS served as a controlling factor of the translation of the CUV by examining the BFBS's financial support to the translation project, conferment of honorary titles to the translators and ideological influence on the translators’ choice of Greek text as the basis for the CUVs New Testament translation.

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Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society , Volume 20 , Issue 2 , April 2010 , pp. 167 - 190
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Copyright © The Royal Asiatic Society 2010

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This paper is based on my work presented at the Third International Postgraduate Conference in Translation and Interpreting held at the University of Edinburgh on 2nd and 3rd November 2007.

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