Medical Chinese Translation Seminar

COURSE DETAILS

14 Week  Online Course beginning on September 7

Class meets on Mondays from 1:30 – 3pm EST

This small group class is designed for students with a working knowledge of medical chinese who are interested in translating Chinese medical texts from various authors. Each class will focus on one reading, as chosen and translated by, an individual student. The student will post their translation prior to the class giving other the instructor and other class members the opportunity to read and comment on the translation. During class comments will be reviewed, and the reading will be discussed in terms of of the language used, the translation rendered by the student and the theory presented by the author. Authors to be discussed include, but are not limited to: Huang Yuanyu, Sun Xitain, Zhang Xichun, Ye Tianshi, and Wu Kun. Each student will submit a minimum of 2 translated passages for discussion in class. Time permitting, more translations may be submitted.

Stephen Boyanton received his PhD in East Asian History from Columbia University, focusing on the medical history of China. He earned his MS in Chinese medicine from Pacific College of Health and Science (formerly Pacific College of Oriental Medicine) and has studied and followed physicians at Beijing University of Chinese Medicine and Chengdu University of Chinese Medicine. He has taught Chinese language, medicine, history, and philosophy for over a decade. His PhD dissertation focused on developments in cold damage theory from 1000-1400, and his research and translations have been published in the Routledge Handbook of Chinese Medicine, the Journal of Chinese Medicine, the journal Ancient Exchanges, and as part of Brill’s Compilation of Chinese Medicine Periodicals Online, 1897-1952. An article of his will appear in the forthcoming anthology From Tang to Song: Transitions and Creations in China’s Middle Period.