Author(s)

Guoqiang Yang

Corresponding Author

Guoqiang Yang

Abstract

American sinologist and translator Burton D. Watson (1925–2017), well-known for his great translations of Chinese classics, has drawn the attention of and been studied by scholars around the world from a variety of perspectives, of which it is of great significance, both in theory and practice, to make a thorough critical analysis, pointing out the problems and imperfection and correspondingly putting forward remedies so as to shed new light on the studies centered on Burton D. Watson and his translation of traditional Chinese classics.

Keywords

Burton D. Watson, Translation, Traditional Chinese Classics, China, The West