Abstract
This article examines the translation and domestication of an important piece of Persian didactic literature, the Gulistan of Sadi, into modern Chinese. We address all of the Chinese translations of this text, focusing on Yang Wanbao's translation published in 2000. Yang transforms the text according to the imperatives of the Chinese state, altering the homoerotic scenes of the original and rendering Sufi Islamic concepts into a Confucian or Buddhist idiom. The result is a translation that serves as a significant text for the Jahriyya Sufi order in China, but also an articulation of Chinese Islam countenanced by the People's Republic.
| Original language | English (US) |
|---|---|
| Pages (from-to) | 6-26 |
| Number of pages | 21 |
| Journal | International Journal of Islam in Asia |
| Volume | 1 |
| Issue number | 1 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - 2020 |
| Externally published | Yes |
Bibliographical note
Publisher Copyright:© 2020 Copyright 2020 by Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands.
Keywords
- Chinese Islam
- Gulistan
- Hui
- Persianate
- Sadi
- sexuality
- sinicization
- translation
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