Lessons Learned in Translating the Paekche Annals of the Samguk Sagi

IF 0.2 4区 社会学 0 ASIAN STUDIES
J. Best
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Abstract:Both as a historian and as a person who has recently translated the Paekche Annals (Paekche pon’gi) from the twelfth-century Samguk sagi, it is my belief that there are three factors that are of fundamental importance both to the original composition of any work on history and to its later translation. The three are: 1) the conceptualization of what span of time and what types of information are relevant to a proper understanding of the history being considered; 2) the theoretical or philosophical assumptions concerning the value or purpose of history underlying the text and its translation; and 3) the historiographic methodology whereby it is understood that these ends ought properly to be achieved. Although Kim Pusik (1075–1151), who oversaw the compilation of the Samguk sagi, and I differ somewhat on all three points, my first duty as his translator was to express as accurately as possible his ideas as represented in the text of the Paekche Annals, and then—where necessary and appropriate—to express any contrasting ideas of my own in annotations. In this paper I present a few examples of how the three factors listed above affected Kim’s representation of Paekche history in the Paekche Annals, and how in some of these instances a differing historical perspective of mine was expressed through the annotations appended to my translation of his text.
《三国志百济志》翻译的经验教训
摘要:作为一名历史学家和最近翻译了12世纪三国志《百济志》(Paekche pon 'gi)的人,我认为有三个因素对任何历史著作的原始构成和后来的翻译都是至关重要的。这三个是:1)什么时间跨度和什么类型的信息与正确理解正在考虑的历史相关的概念化;2)关于文本及其翻译背后的历史价值或目的的理论或哲学假设;3)史学方法论,据此理解这些目标应该恰当地实现。虽然监督《三国志》编撰的金浦锡(1075-1151)与我在这三点上有些不同,但作为他的译者,我的首要任务是尽可能准确地表达他在《百济志》文本中所表达的观点,然后在必要和适当的地方,在注释中表达我自己的任何相反的观点。在本文中,我列举了几个例子,说明上面列出的三个因素是如何影响金在《百济志》中对百济历史的描述的,以及在这些例子中,我是如何通过我对他的文本的翻译所附加的注释来表达我不同的历史观点的。
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