Reframing Narratives in Yan Fu s Translation of Evolution and Ethics
Along with the new tendency to apply the notion of narrative to all activities and disciplines, narrative theory, put forward by Mona Baker, provides us alternative understandings on Yan Fu's translation of Evolution and Ethics in Late Qing Dynasty. The purpose of this paper is to clarify how Yan Fu reframes narratives in his translation of Evolution and Ethics, tactically working his own patriotic ontological narrative into the conceptual narrative of Thomas HuxIey's biological work and effortlessly contributing himself to the construction of a public narrative of saving Chinese people from extinction and striving for progress, with China embedded into a meta narrative of modernity. Keywords reframing narratives; Yan Fu; Evolution and