《二十四史》英文翻译现状

Watson, Burton (华茲生). Records of the Grand Historian of China, translated from the Shi chi of Ssu-ma Ch’ien. Volume II: The Age of Emperor Wu 140 to circa 100 B.C. New York: Columbia University Press, 1961, rp. 1962.

Watson, Burton (华茲生). Records of the Grand Historian: Qin Dynasty. Hong Kong and New York: The Research Centre for Translation, The Chinese University of Hong Kong and Columbia University Press, 1993.

Watson, Burton (华茲生). Records of the Grand Historian: Han Dynasty II, revised edition. Hong Kong and New York: The Research Centre for Translation, The Chinese University of Hong Kong and Columbia University Press, 1993. Revised from 1961 edition Records of the Grand Historian of China, translated from the Shi chi of Ssu-ma Ch’ien. Volume II: The Age of Emperor Wu 140 to circa 100 B.C.

美国威斯康星大学倪豪士教授（William H. Nienhauser Jr.）主编的英文全译本，是由系列卷册组成的，由大型翻译团队参与。《史记》原文一共有130篇，倪教授的译本已翻译过92篇，已出版10册，下一册（第11册）将于2019年8月1日出版。该《史记》英译本，风格偏学术，注释多，而人名、地名等专有名词用韦氏拼音转写的。出版信息如下：

Nienhauser, William H. Jr. (倪豪士) (ed.). The Grand Scribe’s Records. Volume I. The Basic Annals of Pre-Han China by Ssu-ma Ch’ien. Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 1994.

Nienhauser, William H. Jr. (倪豪士) (ed.). The Grand Scribe’s Records. Volume VII. The Memoirs of Pre-Han China by Ssu-ma Ch’ien. Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 1994.

Nienhauser, William H. Jr. (倪豪士) (ed.). The Grand Scribe’s Records. Volume II. The Basic Annals of Han China by Ssu-ma Ch’ien. Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 2002.

Nienhauser, William H. Jr. (倪豪士) (ed.). The Grand Scribe’s Records. Volume 5.1: The Hereditary Houses of Pre-Han China, Part 1. Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 2006.

Nienhauser, William H. Jr. (倪豪士) (ed.); Baccini, Guilia (tr.); Barenghi, Maddalena (tr.); Durrant, Stephen (tr.); Leese-Messing, Kathrin (tr.); Luhn, Clara (tr.); Pöllath, Jakob (tr.); Nienhauser, William H. Jr. (tr.); Shaughnessy, Edward L. (tr.); Van Ess, Han (tr.). The Grand Scribe's Records, Volume XI: The Memoirs of Han China, Part IV. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2019.

除了华茲生和倪豪士这两部大作系列之外，还有若干片段翻译，出版信息如下：

Bodde, Derk (卜德). China’s First Unifier: A Study of the Chʻin Dynasty as Seen in the Life of Li Ssŭ (280?-208 B.C.). Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1938.

Yutang, Lin (林语堂) (ed., tr.). The Wisdom of Confucius. New York: The Modern Library, 1938.

Swann, Nancy Lee (孙念礼). Food and Money in Ancient China: The Earliest Economic History of China to A. D. 25. Han Shu 24 with related texts, Han Shu 91 and Shih-chi 129. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1950.

Kierman, Frank Algerton Jr. (弗兰克·克尔曼). Ssu-ma Ch’ien’s Historiographical Attitude as Reflected as Four Late Warring States Biographies. Wiesbaden: Otto Harrossowitz, 1962.

Birch, Cyril (白芝) (ed.). Anthology of Chinese Literature. From Early Times to the Fourteenth Century. Volume 1. New York: Grove Press, 1965.

Dawson, Raymond (雷蒙·道森). Historical Records (The World's Classics). Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 1994.

Owen, Stephen (宇文所安) (ed., tr.). An Anthology of Chinese Literature. Beginnings to 1911. New York: W. W. Norton and Co., 1996.

De Bary, Theodore (狄百瑞) (ed.); Bloom, Irene (华霭仁) (ed.). Sources of Chinese Tradition From Earliest Times to 1600. Volume 1. Second edition. New York: Columbia University Press, 1999.

Hardy, Grant (葛朗特·哈代). Worlds of Bronze and Bamboo: Sima Qian’s Conquest of History. New York: Columbia University Press, 1999.

Minford, John (闵福德) (ed.); Lau, Joseph S. M. (刘绍铭) (ed.). Classical Chinese Literature. An Anthology of Translations. Volume I: From Antiquity to the Tang Dynasty. New York and Hong Kong: Columbia University Press and The Chinese University Press, 2000.

Csikszentmihalyi, Mark A. (齐思敏) (ed.). Readings in Han Chinese Thought. Indianapolis: Hackett Publishing, 2006.

安平秋[校译]，杨宪益[译]，戴乃迭[译].大中华文库--史记选（共3卷）（汉英对照）Selections From Records of The Historian. 3 vols.北京：外文出版社，2008.

读懂俄语的研究员可以参照《史记》俄译本，是世界上唯一的《二十四史》西文全译本，可以在网上浏览（http://www.vostlit.info/Texts/Dokumenty/China/I/Syma_Tsjan/index.htm）。出版信息如下：

Vyatkin, Rudolf V. (Ру́дольф Вя́ткин) (tr.). Istoricheskie Zapiski (Shi-czi) [Исторические записки (Ши-цзи)], 8 vols. Moscow: Nauka (1972–2002); 9th volume: Vyatkin, Anatoly R., trans. (2010), Moscow: Vostochnaya literatura.

读懂法语的研究人员可以参照著名汉学家沙畹主编的《史记》法译本，极大部分卷册都包括在内。出版信息如下：

Chavannes, Édouard (沙畹) (tr.); Kaltenmark, Maxime (康德谟) (tr.); Pimpaneau, Jacques (班文干) (tr.). Les Mémoires historiques de Se-Ma Ts'ien [The Historical Memoirs of Sima Qian], 9 vols. Paris: E. Leroux, 1895-1903.

《汉书》

英文名称：The Book of Han、History of the Former Han

《汉书》有两部选译本，第一本是德效骞（Homer H. Dubs）翻译的，出版于1938至55年，该书以各种评述和注释为特色，而配有中文原文。第二本是康达维（David R. Knechtges）翻译的《扬雄传》，出版于1982年。这两部著作的出版信息如下：

Ku, Pan (班固); Dubs, Homer H. (德效骞) (tr.). The History of the Former Han Dynasty. 3 vols. Baltimore: Waverly, 1938-55.

Knechtges, David R. (康达维) (tr.). The Han Shu Biography of Yang Xiong (53 BC – AD 18). Tempe: Center for Asian Studies, Arizona State University, 1982.

《三国志》

英文名称：The Records of the Three Kingdoms, The Chronicle of the Three Kingdoms

《三国志》有许多小片段英文翻译，不胜枚举，以下是一些内容较为丰富的翻译节选版。

Chen, Shou (陈寿); Pei, Songzhi (裴松之); Cutter, Robert Joe (高德耀) (tr.); Crowell, William Gordon (孔为廉) (tr.). Empresses and Consorts: Selections from Chen Shou's Records of the Three States With Pei Songzhi's Commentary. Honolulu: University of Hawaii, 1999.

DeWoskin, Kenneth J. (德沃斯金). Doctors Diviners and Magicians of Ancient China: Biographies of Fang-Shih. New York City: Columbia University Press, 1983.

Kuang, Ssu-ma (司马光); Fang, Achilles (方志彤) (tr.); Baxter, Glen W. (白思达) (ed.). The Chronicle of the Three Kingdoms (220-265): Chapters 69-78 from the Tzu chih t'ung chien of Ssu-ma Kuang. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1965.

（ 小编注：这是《资治通鉴》的部分内容，严格来说不算正史，傅君恺博士将其放入其中，有别裁之意。）

Idema, Wilt L. (伊维德) (tr.); West, Stephen H. (奚如谷) (tr.). Records of the Three Kingdoms in Plain Language. Indianapolis: Hackett Publishing Company, Inc, 2016.

其他《二十四史》，像《后汉书》、《周书》、《隋书》、《元史》、《明史》等正史著作，暂无英文节选或全译本。

感谢Carl Gene Fordham（傅君愷）博士整理！

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