title: [Translation and dissemination of Chinese pulse lore in the west: with its English translation and dissemination as the focus].
abstract: Descriptive translation study approach from the perspective of polysystem theory developed by Holmes J., Even-Zohar I. and Toury G. investigates translation in its historical and cultural contexts, and thus offers a new method from a new perspective to study the history of translation of Chinese medicine. Over 300 years has passed by since the first work on Chinese pulse lore in a Western language came out in the 17th century. Many works of this topic in Western languages have got published since then. Descriptive translation study approach from the perspective of polysystem theory is applied to describe 9 representative works on Chinese pulse lore in Western languages in a comprehensive diachronic way, which takes its translation and dissemination in the West as the theme and its English translation as the focus. And the historical route and law of its translation and dissemination in the West have thus been presented: translation contents began with skills and then gradually involved classical texts; the trend is to give a comprehensive interpretation of Chinese medicine from its theoretical foundation to its clinical techniques from a cross-cultural perspective and based on classical Chinese medical texts and cultural differences between medicine East and West.
authors.affiliation: Shanghai University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Shanghai, 201203, China.
authors.forename: Xing
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Liang
authors.affiliation: Shanghai University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Shanghai, 201203, China.
authors.forename: Feng
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Lan