Title: Rethinking Translation from a Bourdieusian Sociological Perspective: Euclid’s Elements of Geometry Translated by Xu Guangqi and Matteo Ricci

Abstract: Taking “field”, “habitus” and “capital” in Bourdieusian theory as its theoretical underpinning, this paper offers a historical and descriptive review of the translation of Euclid’s Elements of Geometry by Xu Guangqi and Matteo Ricci. On analyzing the translators in the framework of historical background and of sociological context, this paper makes efforts to throw some epistemological and methodological light on revealing the connection of translation, subjectivity, society as well as culture.

Keywords: Pierre Bourdieu, field, habitus, capital, Euclid’s Elements of Geometry

Authors: Hongjuan Xin, Professor, Faculty of Foreign Languages, Ningbo University, Ningbo, Zhejiang, China; Zhouying Fei, Faculty of Foreign Languages, Ningbo University, Ningbo, Zhejiang, China.