When we investigate the translated works in Chinese literature, especially those produced by the great translators ever since the late Qing dynasty, we can learn that modeling on the original style and language structure is the last thing they wanted to do, instead they are bent on how to cater for the taste of Chinese readers by drawing heavily on classical Chinese and Chinese language conventions in their translation. Yan Fu(严复), the first person introducing into China systematically the works of western social sciences at the turn of the twentieth century, takes as his model of translation the classical Chinese 2000 years ago in order to satisfy the expectation of men of letters and officials who are well-cultivated in classical Chinese, while Lin Shu(林纾
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