Cultural Identity and Translator's Style: Case Study of Translation of Tea Relevant Acts in Hong Lou Meng

From the methodological perspective, the thesis summarized leisure tea act, judging-time tea act to map translator's style. Through investigations on all these, the thesis succeeded in confirming the translator's styles and pinpointing cultural identity as essential factors influencing their styles. Hopefully, this could help to provide a new angle of view to make research on translator's style. Moreover, the thesis wishes that with analysis of tea culture in Hong Lou Meng the translation of tea relevant acts receive greater priority in the Chinese Classics Translation.

Cultural Identity and Otherness in Literary Translation

Culture and language are close bounded.Cultural similarities provide a basis for translation and cultural exchange.It is widely agreed that cultural differences pose the greatest difficulties in translation.Cultural difference can be categorized into cultural blank and cultural conflict.When translating cultural otherness,different translators employ different translating strategies which are determined by translators' idiosyncrasy,either to preserve or transform cultural images.

Translation, Identity and Identification: Thoughts on the Function of Selective Translation(s) of Language and Symbols in Distinctive Cultural Systems

The main goal of this paper is to show how the way German culture shaped itself through translation of foreign cultural elements can be seen as a paradigm for identity forming in general when one considers the aspects of imitation and re-accentuation of foreign cultural elements as a vital factor in inter-cultural communication in which translation of one system’s language into the language of another one plays an important role in the interactive process of understanding each other but,at the same time,being able to draw a distinction between one’s own cultural system and the foreign one(s).Taking the examples of Johann Gottlieb Fichte’s plan to establish a German cultural system based on a shared German language,this paper will go on to examine translation processes,such as Schleiermacher’s translation of Plato into German and Heidegger’s translation of Plato into Heideggerian terminology in order to show certain mechanisms in translation that introduce foreign cultural elements into a cultural system by altering them linguistically.Johann Fischart’s Rabelais translation will be looked at to show how a French text is turned into a uniquely self-referential German text that changes everything French into German cultural symbols to radically move away from the foreign original.Surprisingly the introduction of foreign elements into a cultural system increases the likelihood to establish a cultural identity by increasing the self-referentiality and reflexivity of the cultural system through increasing the number of cultural symbols that the system can refer to.Moreover,this self-refernetiality is beneficial to the stability of the system.

Translator's Identity in the English Translation of Wenxin Diaolong

In the article Owen’s and Yang Guobin’s English versions of Wenxin Diaolong are compared from the perspective of a translator’s identity.Owen is a translator of A-merican origin while Yang Guobin is of Chinese origin.Their multiple identity as a reader,author,creator and cultural communicator differs much from each other,which produces important influences upon the selection of the strategy of translation.Owen prefers foreignizing translation while Yang favors domesticating translation.The English translation of Wenxin Diaolong provides much value for the research on the translation of Chinese classic literature.

The English Translation of Lunyu and the Dissemination of the Confucian Culture

As one of the carriers of Confucian culture,and from ancient times to the present,Lunyu or The Analects or The Analects of Confucius,has been well received by readers at home and abroad,and there are more and more English translations of Lunyu.This article will select some of the vocabulary translations with ancient Chinese characteristics in Lunyu as the object,employ the method of a comparative analysis to explore the cultural connotation behind the text and the dissemination of the translation,and discuss the translator’s translation strategies.Judging from the research on The Analects by scholars from home and abroad and the opening and development of overseas Confucius Institutes,Lunyu has exerted an enlightenment effect in different times.

On Impacts of Cultural Soft Power on Translation -by Analyzing Popularity of Yu Hua’s Works in US

With the emergence of the Cultural School in the 1990s, researchers began to deem that translation is inevitably associated with political tendencies and aspirations of social groups, and the relationship between source language and target language has never gone beyond politics and are always entangled with power. From political perspective, this thesis will take the popularity of Yu Hua’s works in US into account to analyze and explore how cultural soft power, has impacts on translation activities, especially translation direction and source text selection.

Theoretical Transplantation into Translation Studies——An Analysis on the Pragmatic Application of Hofstede’s

The deepening process of globalization has given rise to restless cultural exchanges among people from different regions of the world through newspapers,books,and other written media.However,the significant differences in languages and cultures have become an insurmountable gap in intercultural communication.To lubricate cultural exchanges,new translation theories that focus on the transformation of different cultural concepts shall be introduced and adopted.This paper aims to extract applicable notions from Hofstede’s Cultural Dimensions for pragmatic translation studies by laying emphasis on its pragmatic value through case study.By such theoretical transplantation,valuable suggestions are proposed to tackle cultural misunderstandings and conflicts encountered amid cultural exchanges.

The Translator's Subjectivity Reflected in the English Translation of "The Lane"

The translator's subjectivity plays an indispensible role in the translating activity. As a senior translator, Prof. Zhang Peiji brings his subjectivity into full play in his prose translation, and the English version of "The Lane" can be regarded as one of his representatives. An examination of the translator's subjectivity reflected in this version helps to better understand Prof. Zhang's art of prose translation.

Translation and Meaning in the New Version of the Tshivenda Bible With Specific Reference to The Lord＇s Prayer

The Bible has been translated into many languages, including Tshivenda. Translating a text from the source language into the target language is always characterized by translational problems. The first version of the Tshivenda translated Bible was produced in 1936, whereas the new version was published in 1998. The translation of the new version of the Tshivenda Bible is based upon the new English version. However, some of the Tshivenda translation equivalents do not reflect the same meaning as those of the source language. There are many factors behind the non-equivalence of the English and Tshivencla lexical items, for example, culture and linguistic systems. The Bible contains ＂culture-bound＂ items, which present specific challenges to translation. Therefore, context becomes important in determining the meaning of the words. The aim of this paper is to highlight translation strategies used in the translation of The Lord＇s Prayer from the new English version of the Bible titled GoodNews Bible： Today＇s English Version With Deutorocanonicals/Apocrypha （1996） into Tshivenda, and the effects they have in transferring the meaning of aspects of the prayer.

The Bamboos of Blekinge： The Writing of Cultures in Swedish Proletarian Fiction

The national identity of the source culture often constitutes an important hermeneutic flame fi＇om which a translated text is understood. At the same time, literary texts themselves sometimes have a tendency to resist cultural narratives and stereotypical ideas of a certain nation. This article explores how such a resistance is made in the English translations of four Swedish novels from the 1930s. These novels are all central texts in the history of Swedish literature, as they form the very basis of a literary current that had a huge impact on the development of the Swedish welfare state--proletarian fiction. In the translations of Harry Martinson＇s, Moa Martinson＇s, Eyvind Johnson＇s, and Ivar Lo-Johansson＇s breakthrough novels, the Anglophone target reader is faced with different kinds of disruptions of the Swedish national identity. Some of these disturb the conception of Sweden as a unified cultural space; others resist the idea of Sweden as a distinct cultural space. There is, however, no general rule to these disruptions： All four novels have their own, specific way of creating narrative resistance.

Study of Post-colonial Translation Theory

The enlightened person of The May Fourth Movement are not properly regarded Chinese culture and Western culture as the source of China’s backwardness from the angle of post-colonial theory.This thesis will analyse the cause and effect of post-colonial translation theory.Through full and accurate material analysis,this finding will give implication to the future translation of Chinese classics.

An Ecological Interpretation of Consumer Culture in Willa Cather's The Professor's House

The Professor's House presents the readers pictures with striking consumer culture characteristics. With abundant goods of sign values, conspicuous consumption, swelling-desire-stimulating power and the individuals' efforts to construct their identities through consumption as dominant features, consumer culture exerts negative and even devastating effects on the characters in the novel. Theories of ecocriticism shed new lights on the interpretation of consumerism reflected in the novel, especially on analyzing how the consumer culture makes the characters suffer from split personality, alienation from nature, society, and even from themselves and their spiritual ecology.

中国古代爱情诗翻译选本在西方世界的传播

近两百年以来西方世界翻译和出版了不少中国古代爱情诗。西方编选者以自己的诗学标准对中国诗歌文本进行选择、翻译和阐释,以翻译选本的方式呈现,使其成为世界文学的一部分。中国古代爱情诗翻译选本在西方世界的译介、传播和接受涉及如下问题:输入者的时代环境、编选者的情感差异、接受者的美学取向、中西方的伦理歧异以及不同文化系统的性别认同。分析编选者主体对中国古代爱情诗的阐释依据,剖析具体文学文本与文化现象背后的跨文化传播机理,可以为中国文化的跨文化阐释提供镜鉴。

On the Role of Food Habits in the Context of the Identity and Cultural Heritage of South and Southeast Asia

Located south of China and extending from Pakistan to the Philippines,South and Southeast Asia is a vast region.The nations and ethnic groups of Southern and South Eastern Asia have a rich and varied cultural heritage.Food habits are an inseparable part of this heritage and certain ways concerning food and its preparation,as well as the ceremonies or rituals surrounding it,give whole nations and groups an identity that can be as important as dress or 1anguage.

文化身份的男权书写:解读V.S.奈保尔的小说《河湾》

作为当代英语文学世界颇具争议的移民作家,奈保尔在欧美批评界广受赞誉并获诺贝尔文学奖,而其作品的非洲叙事却受到后殖民批评界的猛烈批判。对奈保尔的解读过分集中在对后殖民文化政治的分析,反而忽略了其作品的性别批评空间。本文运用相关女性主义理论,以性别研究为视角解读奈保尔代表作《河湾》,分析作品中文化身份与男权叙事的隐性关系,在对奈保尔文学经验的总结中批判其作品的父权意识与性别政治。

林语堂的复合文化身份与中国文化英译

以林语堂文学翻译为例,可以分析林语堂的复合文化身份的构建及其影响下中国文化英译的策略和方法。林语堂兼具中国文化和西方文化背景,在翻译中一方面维持原文特色,借此输出中国思维,增强中国传统文化影响力。另一方面,面对翻译中的文化差异和读者需求,林语堂作为翻译的主体需要对读者负责,利用西方文化阐释中国思想或对原文进行删减。在翻译中,林语堂灵活运用两种文化身份,构建独特的复合文化身份,中体西用,带领中国文化走向世界。

严复多重文化身份对翻译《美术通诠》的影响

《美术通诠》是严复唯一一本介绍美术与文学的译著,也是20世纪中国第一部根据英文翻译过来的文学理论著作,展现了严复独特的美学思想。通过对读原文和译文,发现严复多重文化身份对翻译选材和翻译策略具有一定影响:作为教育家,利用增译法和按语倡导美术教育的重要性;作为维新派提倡者,将美术视为强国手段,期望以此“开民智”;作为桐城派提倡者,采用归化法强调“义”与“理”的辨析,提炼出“托意写诚”的美术内涵。

文明互鉴视阈下林纾的三种身份考读

林纾作为清末民初的文学巨擘,集“文言文捍卫者”“传统文化殉道者”“外国小说译介者”三种身份于一体。作为文言文捍卫者,他在新文化运动中力排众议,用铮铮铁骨竭力捍卫文言文固有的地位,提倡古文与白话文并行,骈散结合、言畅意美。作为传统文化殉道者,他的好义尚侠、家风严谨、学养深厚,凝聚了五千年中华文明传统美德。作为外国小说译介者,他在国运多舛之际,通过大量翻译小说达到警醒国人、救国保种之目的。林纾作品彰显了中华文化的多元魅力,他是清末民初一位对文化界做出巨大贡献的文化狂生、译界泰斗。他既坚守传统文化的主体地位,又主动翻译西方文学作品,其文明互鉴理念对当代增强文化自信、提升文化软实力具有划时代的借鉴意义。

Translating Culture-Bound Elements:A Case Study of Traditional Chinese Theatre in the Socio-Cultural Context of Hong Kong

This study explores the controversy surrounding the translation of the name of a new cultural infrastructure in Hong Kong,specifically related to the cultural heritage of traditional Chinese theatre.The first performing arts landmark in Hong Kong's West Kowloon Cultural District was named the Xiqu Centre;the term xiqu is a Hanyu pinyin representing traditional Chinese theatre.Though this translation issue has been intensely debated for over a decade,it remains unexplored in the research.With reference to Venuti's translation strategies of foreignization and domestication,this study examines the Hong Kong public's views on the translation of the name of this cultural landmark and the underlying drivers of their perceptions.It uses internet-based surveys,semi-structured interviews with the public,and interviews with experts as data sources.The results revealed that factors of(1)aesthetics and artistry,(2)cultural identity,and(3)publicity and internationalization have contributed to public perception.This study^findings shed new light on how translation interacts with cultural,social,and political factors by examining how Hong Kong’s unique historical relationship with China and the West has played a role in this translation issue.The findings have significant implications for the translation of culture-bound elements and the transmission of cultural heritage in Hong Kong and worldwide.

Fragmented People in the Fragmented Country in Midnight's Children:Viewed from the Perspective of “Fragmentation”

In Midnight's Children,frequently seen are the words like"hole","segment","crack",and the damage and loss of bodily function such as amnesia,which is called a"phenomenon of fragmentation"in this paper.In terms of the phenomenon,the characters of three generations in Midnight's Children are analyzed.It is found that colonial culture exerts a long-lasting impact on its colonized people,under whose influence generations of colonized people find it hard to negotiate their dual cultural identities.This happened to India.Postcolonial Indians had fragmented identities.Furthermore,the phenomenon also reflects that India was a fragmented nation,whose nationals desired peace,unity,and prosperity.