Yan Fu (simplified Chinese: 严复; traditional Chinese: 嚴復; pinyin: Yán Fù; Wade–Giles: Yen2 Fu4; courtesy name Ji Dao (幾道); 8 January 1854 – 27 October 1921) was a Chinese military officer, newspaper editor, translator, and writer. He is most known for introducing Western ideas to China during the late 19th century. [1]

Yan Fu (born Jan. 8, 1854, Fuzhou, Fujian province, China—died Oct. 27, 1921, Fuzhou) was a Chinese scholar who translated into Chinese works by T.H. Huxley, John Stuart Mill, Herbert Spencer, Adam Smith, and others in an attempt to show that the secret to Western wealth and power did not lie in Western technological advances, such as ...

严复是清末极具影响的资产阶级启蒙思想家， 中国近代史 上向西方国家寻找真理的“先进的中国人”之一。 他所提出的“信、达、雅”的翻译标准，对后世的翻译工作产生了深远影响。 [2-3] 清 咸丰 三年十二月十日（1854年1月8日），严复出生于今福建省侯官县盖山镇阳岐村一中医世家。 同治五年（1866年），严复父亲病逝，学馆中辍，严复放弃走科举“正途”。 同治六年（1867年），入 福州船政学堂 学习驾驶，改名宗光，字又陵。 同治十年（1871年），福州船政学堂毕业，为该 …

2022年8月22日 · This study examines the translator as an activist through a case study on Yan Fu (1854–1921), a pioneer activist translator in the late Qing. It investigates Yan Fu’s activist agendas manifested in the prefaces to his translations.

2024年2月6日 · Yan Fu's informed adoption and adaptation of modern Western and classical Chinese ideas changed the way a generation thought, Fang Aiqing and Hu Meidong report in Fuzhou. Scholars review calligraphy works of modern Chinese translator and thinker Yan Fu, who is also known for his handwriting that's often used as a model for learning calligraphy.

Yan Fu (Yen Fu) 1854-1921 Translator, writer and late-Qing reformist. Born in Fujian, Yan Fu initially received an education in the Confucian classics, but in 1867 passed the entrance exams to the naval academy in Fuzhou.

Each time when Chinese scholars try to evaluate one translated book, Yan Fu’s translation thoughts “Faithfulness, Expressiveness, and Elegance” would be their first choice to act as a standard to judge whether it can be an ideal one.

This book is about how one of the leading intellectual architects of Chinese modernization, Yan Fu (1854–1921), introduced the Chinese intellectual world to the...

2022年12月29日 · For more than a century, Yan Fu’s translation principle (s) had a great influence on translation theory and practice in China and beyond. Largely because of the pithiness of the principle (s) and Yan’s marked departure from fidelity – an aspect of the principle, there has been much discussion.

Yan Fu is famous for his three-facet theory of translation; namely, faithfulness (信 xìn), be true to the original in spirit; expressiveness (達 dá), be accessible to the target reader; and elegance (雅 yǎ), be in the language the target reader accepts as being educated.