{"title":"Translation of Chinese Medical Terms: Not Just a Matter of Words","authors":"N. Wiseman","doi":"10.1054/CAOM.2001.0067","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Successful acts of transcultural transmission of knowledge rest on an approach to translation that for the most part is highly literal. In the present paper, I describe this methodology and show how it has not been applied in the westward transmission of Chinese medicine. Through practical examples, I demonstrate the conceptual problems that arise through failure to choose the methodology described.","PeriodicalId":100265,"journal":{"name":"Clinical Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine","volume":"48 1","pages":"50-59"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2001-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"9","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Clinical Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1054/CAOM.2001.0067","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract Successful acts of transcultural transmission of knowledge rest on an approach to translation that for the most part is highly literal. In the present paper, I describe this methodology and show how it has not been applied in the westward transmission of Chinese medicine. Through practical examples, I demonstrate the conceptual problems that arise through failure to choose the methodology described.
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