This article,based on the English version of Li Bai's Classical Chinese Poem“Bring in the Wine”,explores the important position of cultural transmission in the English translation of the Classical Chinese Poem t...This article,based on the English version of Li Bai's Classical Chinese Poem“Bring in the Wine”,explores the important position of cultural transmission in the English translation of the Classical Chinese Poem through the comparison of the cultural translation,and finally draws the rationality and feasibility of the creative translation techniques in the English translation of the Classical Chinese Poems.It points out that the alienation of the Chinese culture's external communication has ignored the reader's cultural acceptance ability and position of the western countries and regions dominated by the foreign countries.It is believed that in a long period of time,Chinese culture needs the translation of Chinese translators to dissimilation,the translation of foreign sinologists,domestication,and alienation,to meet the needs of different types of readers and to promote the Chinese culture to go out.展开更多
China's traditional culture has always stressed the ideological education that"renounce evil and turn to virtue"and"loyalty,sincerity,benevolence,righteousness",which particularly focused on th...China's traditional culture has always stressed the ideological education that"renounce evil and turn to virtue"and"loyalty,sincerity,benevolence,righteousness",which particularly focused on the initiation and guidance for children.As the carrier of the elementary education,enlightenment classics is the essence and concentration of Chinese traditional culture.But it is also a difficult problem for translators that how to perfect the English translation of enlightenment classics in a strategy way to overseas readers.Tianjin Foreign Studies University professor Zhao Yanchun's The Three Word Primer provides solutions to such problem.His English version has faithful content,exquisite style and what's more, it is the first Three Character Classic with"even rhyme style of three-word figure"in the world and it has rhythmic sentences and rhythm sensation.Through the English version of Zhao, the author puts forward some views and thoughts on the translation strategies of the enlightenment classics.展开更多
Based on the theory of translational action of the functionalism,this paper selects three aspects,translation as an inter-cultural and communicative action,a purposeful text-processing action and an inter-personal act...Based on the theory of translational action of the functionalism,this paper selects three aspects,translation as an inter-cultural and communicative action,a purposeful text-processing action and an inter-personal action,to analyze the important issues as well as the translation strategies,methods and techniques adopted in the translation of Chinese allusions.The study shows that the theory of translational action is important for the translation of allusions and that it helps to modify the target text.The translator,also the author of this paper,hopes that this study will be useful for the translation of allusions and the publicity of traditional Chinese culture across the world.展开更多
Annotation in translation is of great value in communicating"the local"to the global readership.Based on our content and function-centered statistics on the 483 notes of the four English versions of Shen Fu...Annotation in translation is of great value in communicating"the local"to the global readership.Based on our content and function-centered statistics on the 483 notes of the four English versions of Shen Fu’s autobiographical work Fushengliuji,we find that 1)in terms of content,cultural,geographic,historical,and literary references are the most important categories of annotation in the English translation of this work;annotations in the four versions are employed to serve 6 major functions/purposes:to further inform,to facilitate understanding,to avoid misunderstanding,to interpret personally,to cite or allude,and to correct mistakes;2)no correlation can be established between the use of annotation and the reception of the work per se,but it can reflect the translator’s poise and strategy which ultimately affect the reception of the work;and 3)Lin’s version used relatively few notes and relied heavily on paraphrasing,a practice which leads to better accessibility of his translation and at the same time to the possible sacrifice of some culturally and socially significant elements of the original.Black’s translation used notes sparingly,and she was so creative as to rearrange and edit the original text,revealing her approach of radical"reader-centeredness".Pratt and Chiang’s version and Sanders’version used a large number of notes carrying a sinological mission,revealing their respect for the original and their decision to inform and inspire their readers.We argue that cultural translation,whether aided by annotation or not,is predominantly an art about"glocalism"and that both author-centeredness and reader-centeredness can be reconciled,since ultimately they serve the same"communicative"purpose.展开更多
The Temple of Heaven is the place where the emperors of the Ming and Qing dynasties （1368-1911） worshipped heaven and prayed for good harvests. It is an axial arrangement of the Circular Mound Altar to the south wit...The Temple of Heaven is the place where the emperors of the Ming and Qing dynasties （1368-1911） worshipped heaven and prayed for good harvests. It is an axial arrangement of the Circular Mound Altar to the south with the conic.ally roofed Imperial Vault of Heaven immediately to its north. This is linked by a raised sacred way to the circular, three tiered, conically roofed Hall of Prayer for Good Harvests further to the north.展开更多
文摘This article,based on the English version of Li Bai's Classical Chinese Poem“Bring in the Wine”,explores the important position of cultural transmission in the English translation of the Classical Chinese Poem through the comparison of the cultural translation,and finally draws the rationality and feasibility of the creative translation techniques in the English translation of the Classical Chinese Poems.It points out that the alienation of the Chinese culture's external communication has ignored the reader's cultural acceptance ability and position of the western countries and regions dominated by the foreign countries.It is believed that in a long period of time,Chinese culture needs the translation of Chinese translators to dissimilation,the translation of foreign sinologists,domestication,and alienation,to meet the needs of different types of readers and to promote the Chinese culture to go out.
文摘China's traditional culture has always stressed the ideological education that"renounce evil and turn to virtue"and"loyalty,sincerity,benevolence,righteousness",which particularly focused on the initiation and guidance for children.As the carrier of the elementary education,enlightenment classics is the essence and concentration of Chinese traditional culture.But it is also a difficult problem for translators that how to perfect the English translation of enlightenment classics in a strategy way to overseas readers.Tianjin Foreign Studies University professor Zhao Yanchun's The Three Word Primer provides solutions to such problem.His English version has faithful content,exquisite style and what's more, it is the first Three Character Classic with"even rhyme style of three-word figure"in the world and it has rhythmic sentences and rhythm sensation.Through the English version of Zhao, the author puts forward some views and thoughts on the translation strategies of the enlightenment classics.
基金Thanks to the committee of Jiangsu Social Science.This paper is funded by Jiangsu Social Science Fund:The Iconography of The Decorated Writing-Paper of the Ten Bamboo Studio,which number is 20YYB005.Meanwhile,it is also the findings of Comparative Analysis of International Media Discourse on SARS and COVID-19 and Countermeasure Studies(No.:2020SJZDA013)Major Projects of Philosophy and Social Science Research in Colleges and Universities of Jiangsu ProvinceThis paper is also funded by the Education Science and Reform Special Project:A study on Curriculum Setting of Industry Translation Training for MTI(No.:2019JYKX-11),which is organized by the Center of Faculty Development and Teaching Evaluation of NUAA.
文摘Based on the theory of translational action of the functionalism,this paper selects three aspects,translation as an inter-cultural and communicative action,a purposeful text-processing action and an inter-personal action,to analyze the important issues as well as the translation strategies,methods and techniques adopted in the translation of Chinese allusions.The study shows that the theory of translational action is important for the translation of allusions and that it helps to modify the target text.The translator,also the author of this paper,hopes that this study will be useful for the translation of allusions and the publicity of traditional Chinese culture across the world.
基金sponsored by the“Overseas Reception of Suzhou Local Culture”fund(No.2019SJA1330)the Jiangsu Social Sciences and Humanities Fund(No.18WWD005)。
文摘Annotation in translation is of great value in communicating"the local"to the global readership.Based on our content and function-centered statistics on the 483 notes of the four English versions of Shen Fu’s autobiographical work Fushengliuji,we find that 1)in terms of content,cultural,geographic,historical,and literary references are the most important categories of annotation in the English translation of this work;annotations in the four versions are employed to serve 6 major functions/purposes:to further inform,to facilitate understanding,to avoid misunderstanding,to interpret personally,to cite or allude,and to correct mistakes;2)no correlation can be established between the use of annotation and the reception of the work per se,but it can reflect the translator’s poise and strategy which ultimately affect the reception of the work;and 3)Lin’s version used relatively few notes and relied heavily on paraphrasing,a practice which leads to better accessibility of his translation and at the same time to the possible sacrifice of some culturally and socially significant elements of the original.Black’s translation used notes sparingly,and she was so creative as to rearrange and edit the original text,revealing her approach of radical"reader-centeredness".Pratt and Chiang’s version and Sanders’version used a large number of notes carrying a sinological mission,revealing their respect for the original and their decision to inform and inspire their readers.We argue that cultural translation,whether aided by annotation or not,is predominantly an art about"glocalism"and that both author-centeredness and reader-centeredness can be reconciled,since ultimately they serve the same"communicative"purpose.
文摘The Temple of Heaven is the place where the emperors of the Ming and Qing dynasties （1368-1911） worshipped heaven and prayed for good harvests. It is an axial arrangement of the Circular Mound Altar to the south with the conic.ally roofed Imperial Vault of Heaven immediately to its north. This is linked by a raised sacred way to the circular, three tiered, conically roofed Hall of Prayer for Good Harvests further to the north.
