T. H. Barrett is Professor Emeritus of East Asian History at the Department of Religions and Philosophies in SOAS University of London. A 1971 Cambridge graduate in Chinese Studies, he gained a Ph.D. from Yale in Buddhist Studies in 1978. His main publications concern historical aspects of Buddhism, Daoism, and Confucianism in China and Japan, especially religious printing in East Asia. He has also written extensively on the understanding of China in Britain. Lawrence Wang-chi Wong is Professor Emeritus and Research Professor at the Department of Translation in The Chinese University of Hong Kong. He is concurrently Director of the Research Centre for Translation. He received his Ph.D. from SOAS University of London. He has published extensively on modern Chinese literature, Hong Kong, and Chinese translation history in the 18th–20th centuries. His recent projects are mostly about the translators and translation issues in Sino-British diplomatic relations in the 18th–19th centuries.

• AcknowledgementsIntroduction by T. H. BARRETTConflicting Interpretations on the Collected Statutes of the Ming Dynasty: The Debate between Navarrete and Brancati on the Ritual to Confucius in Canton in 1668 - Thierry MEYNARDBeijing as a Missionary Translation Center in the Eighteenth Century - Eugenio MENEGONThomas Manning (1772–1840): Spiritual Intuitions and Sinological Visions in the Case of an English Eccentric - Edward WEECHLearning and Outcomes in Early Anglophone Sinological Translation: The Case of Thomas Manning (1772–1840) - T. H. BARRETTTwo Cousins: Jean-Pierre Abel-Rémusat’s and Stanislas Julien’s Translations of Yu jiao li - Roland ALTENBURGERSinologists as Diplomatic Translators: Robert Thom (1807–1846) in the First Opium War and His Translation of the Supplementary Treaty (Treaty of the Bogue), 1843 - Lawrence Wang-chi WONGWhen Sinology Encountered Ethnology: S. Wells Williams’ Translation of Chinese Death Rituals in Jiali Tieshi Jicheng - Siyang SHUAIThe First Translations of Daoist Religious Texts - Benjamin PENNYLiterary Translation and Sinological Knowledge: The Case of Herbert Allen Giles’ (1845–1935) Gems of Chinese Literature (1884) - Lingjie JIA Literary Experiment of “Mahayana Christianity”: On Timothy Richard’s English Translation of Xiyouji - Xiaofang WUWidow as Trustee: George Jamieson’s Translation of Qing Widow “Inheritance Rights” - Rui LIUTranslations of Chinese Fiction in Italy at the End of the Nineteenth Century - Alessandra BREZZI“Naxiology” and Translation in the Works of Joseph Rock - Duncan POUPARDForging a New Epistemology about Philosophy and Science: Joseph Needham’s Translation of Zhu Xi’s Concept of Li 理 - I-Hsin CHENAppendix: Sinology in Japan and the Translation of Chinese Texts - Joshua FOGELContributors

T. H. Barrett is Professor Emeritus of East Asian History at the Department of Religions and Philosophies in SOAS University of London. A 1971 Cambridge graduate in Chinese Studies, he gained a Ph.D. from Yale in Buddhist Studies in 1978. His main publications concern historical aspects of Buddhism, Daoism, and Confucianism in China and Japan, especially religious printing in East Asia. He has also written extensively on the understanding of China in Britain. Lawrence Wang-chi Wong is Professor Emeritus and Research Professor at the Department of Translation in The Chinese University of Hong Kong. He is concurrently Director of the Research Centre for Translation. He received his Ph.D. from SOAS University of London. He has published extensively on modern Chinese literature, Hong Kong, and Chinese translation history in the 18th–20th centuries. His recent projects are mostly about the translators and translation issues in Sino-British diplomatic relations in the 18th–19th centuries.

• AcknowledgementsIntroduction by T. H. BARRETTConflicting Interpretations on the Collected Statutes of the Ming Dynasty: The Debate between Navarrete and Brancati on the Ritual to Confucius in Canton in 1668 - Thierry MEYNARDBeijing as a Missionary Translation Center in the Eighteenth Century - Eugenio MENEGONThomas Manning (1772–1840): Spiritual Intuitions and Sinological Visions in the Case of an English Eccentric - Edward WEECHLearning and Outcomes in Early Anglophone Sinological Translation: The Case of Thomas Manning (1772–1840) - T. H. BARRETTTwo Cousins: Jean-Pierre Abel-Rémusat’s and Stanislas Julien’s Translations of Yu jiao li - Roland ALTENBURGERSinologists as Diplomatic Translators: Robert Thom (1807–1846) in the First Opium War and His Translation of the Supplementary Treaty (Treaty of the Bogue), 1843 - Lawrence Wang-chi WONGWhen Sinology Encountered Ethnology: S. Wells Williams’ Translation of Chinese Death Rituals in Jiali Tieshi Jicheng - Siyang SHUAIThe First Translations of Daoist Religious Texts - Benjamin PENNYLiterary Translation and Sinological Knowledge: The Case of Herbert Allen Giles’ (1845–1935) Gems of Chinese Literature (1884) - Lingjie JIA Literary Experiment of “Mahayana Christianity”: On Timothy Richard’s English Translation of Xiyouji - Xiaofang WUWidow as Trustee: George Jamieson’s Translation of Qing Widow “Inheritance Rights” - Rui LIUTranslations of Chinese Fiction in Italy at the End of the Nineteenth Century - Alessandra BREZZI“Naxiology” and Translation in the Works of Joseph Rock - Duncan POUPARDForging a New Epistemology about Philosophy and Science: Joseph Needham’s Translation of Zhu Xi’s Concept of Li 理 - I-Hsin CHENAppendix: Sinology in Japan and the Translation of Chinese Texts - Joshua FOGELContributors

T. H. Barrett is Professor Emeritus of East Asian History at the Department of Religions and Philosophies in SOAS University of London. A 1971 Cambridge graduate in Chinese Studies, he gained a Ph.D. from Yale in Buddhist Studies in 1978. His main publications concern historical aspects of Buddhism, Daoism, and Confucianism in China and Japan, especially religious printing in East Asia. He has also written extensively on the understanding of China in Britain. Lawrence Wang-chi Wong is Professor Emeritus and Research Professor at the Department of Translation in The Chinese University of Hong Kong. He is concurrently Director of the Research Centre for Translation. He received his Ph.D. from SOAS University of London. He has published extensively on modern Chinese literature, Hong Kong, and Chinese translation history in the 18th–20th centuries. His recent projects are mostly about the translators and translation issues in Sino-British diplomatic relations in the 18th–19th centuries.

• AcknowledgementsIntroduction by T. H. BARRETTConflicting Interpretations on the Collected Statutes of the Ming Dynasty: The Debate between Navarrete and Brancati on the Ritual to Confucius in Canton in 1668 - Thierry MEYNARDBeijing as a Missionary Translation Center in the Eighteenth Century - Eugenio MENEGONThomas Manning (1772–1840): Spiritual Intuitions and Sinological Visions in the Case of an English Eccentric - Edward WEECHLearning and Outcomes in Early Anglophone Sinological Translation: The Case of Thomas Manning (1772–1840) - T. H. BARRETTTwo Cousins: Jean-Pierre Abel-Rémusat’s and Stanislas Julien’s Translations of Yu jiao li - Roland ALTENBURGERSinologists as Diplomatic Translators: Robert Thom (1807–1846) in the First Opium War and His Translation of the Supplementary Treaty (Treaty of the Bogue), 1843 - Lawrence Wang-chi WONGWhen Sinology Encountered Ethnology: S. Wells Williams’ Translation of Chinese Death Rituals in Jiali Tieshi Jicheng - Siyang SHUAIThe First Translations of Daoist Religious Texts - Benjamin PENNYLiterary Translation and Sinological Knowledge: The Case of Herbert Allen Giles’ (1845–1935) Gems of Chinese Literature (1884) - Lingjie JIA Literary Experiment of “Mahayana Christianity”: On Timothy Richard’s English Translation of Xiyouji - Xiaofang WUWidow as Trustee: George Jamieson’s Translation of Qing Widow “Inheritance Rights” - Rui LIUTranslations of Chinese Fiction in Italy at the End of the Nineteenth Century - Alessandra BREZZI“Naxiology” and Translation in the Works of Joseph Rock - Duncan POUPARDForging a New Epistemology about Philosophy and Science: Joseph Needham’s Translation of Zhu Xi’s Concept of Li 理 - I-Hsin CHENAppendix: Sinology in Japan and the Translation of Chinese Texts - Joshua FOGELContributors