Guest guest Posted July 18, 2005 Report Share Posted July 18, 2005 Dear Shinjiro, I appreciate your comments, and am glad to hear you are teaching. I assume you are now living up in Bishop, Ca? As far as your translation issues, I have forwarded your issues on translations to Nigel Wiseman and Craig Mitchell for their reply. I do not have the historical background to discuss these myself with you, but appreciate your translation work. I've enjoyed your recent series in the North American Journal of Acupuncture very much. I look forward to seeing your Shang Han Lun work in the future. Feel free to contact me privately as well. Take care, On Jul 18, 2005, at 9:32 AM, Shinjiro Kanazawa wrote: > Dear Z'ev Sensei: It is nice to be able to write you. > I started to tutor a group of the members of JAAC > (Japanese Acupuncture Association of California) to > read Shang Han Lun. I thought it is good for Japanese > acupuncturists in the US to know about the English > translation of Shang Han Lun, which done by C. > Mitchel, F. Ye, and N. Wiseman, so I read for them. > And I found their mistranslation in the first line of > the Zhang Ji's Preface. It starts, " Each time I read > about Yue-Ren entering [the Kingdom of] Guo to examine > [patients] and inspect the complexion of the Marquis > of Qi. " This is wrong. Guo and Qi were different > countries, so you cannot meet the Marquis of Qi > entering the Kingdom of Guo. It is obvious that the > translators even did not try to refer " Shi Ji Bian Que > Can Gong Lie Chuan. " > This made me wonder the quality of this translation. > Some times, they translate idiomatic expressions word > by word, loosing real meanings. > I will report in future what happens in the main > text!! > Shinjiro > > > > > > > > > > > Chinese Herbal Medicine offers various professional services, > including board approved continuing education classes, an annual > conference and a free discussion forum in Chinese Herbal Medicine. > > > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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