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基督教文化学刊 Journal for the Study of Christian Culture 中国语境中的外来经典 ——严复之《马可福音》翻译尝试 Rendering Foreignness into Chinese: Yan Fu’s Attempt to Translate the Gospel of Mark 李炽昌著 涂智进译 Archie C. C. LEE 作者简介 李炽昌，山东大学犹太教与跨宗教研究中心特聘教授 Introduction to the author Archie C. C. LEE, Distinguished Professor, Center of Judaic and Inter-Religious Studies, Shandong University Email: archielee@ 36 第 33 辑 · 2015 春 道无常名 ：理论与经典解读 Abstract Translation of the Bible provides a contested site for the Chris- tian faith to be articulated and formulated into a new literary existence. The process is complicated and involves both resistance and negotiation. The case of transmission of the Bible to the Chinese audience is no exception. The perplexity entails the central issues of rendering an allegedly Western text into a bewildering language by foreign missionaries, who were taken as agents of European and American imperialism. On August 6, 1909, the Shanghai Local Committee of British and Foreign Bible Society resolved to commission Yan Fu (1853- 1921) to translate the Gospel of Mark into Chinese. The attempt was really a new venture initiated by the Society and a breakthrough in Chinese Bible translation involving an eminent Chinese translation scholar and literary stylist. This paper intends to examine Yan’s translation and look into the critical discussion of the 33 reviewers on Mark 1-4. Critical issues of the translation of the Bible into Chinese include how and to what exte