TRANSLATIONS OF WESTERN SCIENCE BY LINE LEZHI A
Te 47-year activities of the American missionary of the liberal party, Lin Lezhi, is associated with the period of changes in the era of the Qing dynasty. He took an active part in those changes while playing an important role in translating Western scientifc works. With a clear goal and special strategies, he spread the advanced cultures and thoughts of the West and thus afected China in many ways. Many translated works still have an indelible signifcance. Lin Lezhi is a distinguished American missionary translator who preached in China. Any studies of the history of translation in the era of the Qing Dynasty would be incomplete without mentioning Lin Lezhi.