An Analysis on Chinese Imitation of Aesop’s Fables : WuGan by Li Shi Xiong in the end of Ming dynasty

초록

In 1625 KuangYi as the first chinese translation of Aesop’s Fables was published in China, which was dictated by Nicolas Trigault(金尼阁, 1577-1629), also recorded by ZhangGeng. KuangYi as the first chinese collection of Aesop’s Fables shew the general outlook of western fables to Chinese readers. KuangYi has held an unshakeable place in the history of Chinese translation literature. Unique heterogeneous culture (literary, religious) factors enrich the Chinese fable and directly contribute to the birth of WuGan, an imitation works with the combination of Chinese and Western. During the process of imitating KuangYi, Lishixiong(李世熊, 1602-1686) got rid of religious factors and combined the western literary factors with satire of chinese traditional fables to form his own style of writing fables. Nowadays, we take WuGan by LiShiXiong as the early model for the integration of Chinese and Western literature.

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