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The competition for Taoist terminologies
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Many Western translators and scholars translated and interpreted Chinese works according to their own preferences as if they could act as consumers in the market of cultural ideas who could decide what’s terrific and what stinks. So, the Chinese term shengren was rendered into no less than thirty-six translations.
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