{"title":"The Lady of Lijiang","authors":"D. Poupard","doi":"10.7227/BJRL.94.2.4","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Elise Scharten (1876–1965) was a pioneering Dutch missionary who\n translated texts into and out of the language of the Naxi people, a Chinese\n minority group living in the Himalayan foothills of Yunnan province. She was the\n first to translate the Naxi creation story into English, and the only translator\n of a western text into Naxi. Her legacy has, however, been overshadowed by the\n achievements of more prominent Naxiologists. Today, Scharten is almost\n completely unknown. Nevertheless, Scharten’s unique contribution to the\n transmission of cultural knowledge between westerners and the Naxi has been\n preserved in museum and library archives. From these sources we can build a\n clear picture of her importance to the study of this unique people.","PeriodicalId":80816,"journal":{"name":"Bulletin. John Rylands University Library of Manchester","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2018-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.7227/BJRL.94.2.4","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Bulletin. John Rylands University Library of Manchester","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.7227/BJRL.94.2.4","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
Elise Scharten (1876–1965) was a pioneering Dutch missionary who
translated texts into and out of the language of the Naxi people, a Chinese
minority group living in the Himalayan foothills of Yunnan province. She was the
first to translate the Naxi creation story into English, and the only translator
of a western text into Naxi. Her legacy has, however, been overshadowed by the
achievements of more prominent Naxiologists. Today, Scharten is almost
completely unknown. Nevertheless, Scharten’s unique contribution to the
transmission of cultural knowledge between westerners and the Naxi has been
preserved in museum and library archives. From these sources we can build a
clear picture of her importance to the study of this unique people.
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