2012 Chinese Language Teaching Conference 
                    2012 年国际汉语教学研讨会
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      • Prof. Jerome Su
      • Prof. Hugo T. Y. Tseng
      • Prof. Jian-guo Ji
      • Prof. Derek D. Herforth
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      • Rex How,Creater of Chinese Cubes
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      • Larry Rohter, New York Times
      • Isaac Stone Fish Foreign Policy Magazine
      • Jonathan Burnston, Karbone Inc.
      • Prof. J. Wheatley, MIT (formerly)
      • Richard Thomas, Performing Artist
      • Prof. C. P. Chou, Princeton Universtiy
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The Crisis in Classical Chinese Language Teaching


Derek D. Herforth 何德睿
University of Sydney
Australia

"Recent scholarly translations of pre-Han classics into English exhibit a disturbing trend: they are often less accurate than earlier renderings. Thus, the versions of Zhuangzi  by Mair (1998) and Ziporyn (2009) sometimes falter where decades ago Giles (1926) and Graham (1981) strode confidently..." 
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