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Richard Wilhelm
卫礼贤Richard Wilhelm is a major figure in the history of Chinese studies, with work spanning translation, religion and philosophy. This dossier distinguishes the person's scholarship from what can—and cannot—yet be verified about the Chinese name.
1873—1930Germany
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Person, materials, and method
Scholarship in context.
Richard Wilhelm lived for many years in Qingdao and translated major Chinese classics into German. His rendering of the Book of Changes was later translated into English with a preface by Carl Jung, shaping the text's reception in Western psychology, religious thought, and popular culture.
Wilhelm worked more as a cross-cultural interpreter than as a narrowly textual scholar. His translations had extraordinary reach, but their German philosophical, mystical, and harmonizing tendencies mean they should not be treated as neutral modern critical editions.
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- Richard Wilhelm is represented in the source dossier as a major figure in translation, religion and philosophy.
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