Qiu Sheng Fu,is considered as one of the finest works in Chinese literature, famous for its daring imagery. The translation of this masterpiece exposes a most difficult task for translators. The author picks out two w...Qiu Sheng Fu,is considered as one of the finest works in Chinese literature, famous for its daring imagery. The translation of this masterpiece exposes a most difficult task for translators. The author picks out two well-accepted translated versions:one is Ruo Jingguo's Ode To The Sound Of Autumn and L. Cranmer-Byng's Autumn, as the author sees it, they are the typical example of semantic translation and communicative translation of the source text respectively. From this perspective, the writer aims to make a comparative study and demonstrate the differences between the two.展开更多
Hong Lou Meng is one of the most important works in Chinese classical novels,and the author,Cao Xueqin,gave his own understanding of the feudal society and his exclamation of the fickleness of the world in the novel.U...Hong Lou Meng is one of the most important works in Chinese classical novels,and the author,Cao Xueqin,gave his own understanding of the feudal society and his exclamation of the fickleness of the world in the novel.Up to now,the novel and the poems in the novel are still of high artistic value.Qiu Chuang Feng Yu Xi,as one of the most artistic and representative poems in the novel,has been translated into English by many translators.Among the translations,Yang Xianyi’s translation and David Hawkes’translation have the highest artistic achievements.Yang Xianyi is a famous Chinese translator and David Hawkes is a world-renowned sinologist in Britain.Because of their distinct identities,their translation purposes and translation styles are totally different.Guided by German translator Hans Vermeer’s Skopos Theory,this paper investigates the prologues of the translations of Hong Lou Meng and the translators’biographies.The findings indicate the respective translation purposes of Yang Xianyi and David Hawkes and their trade-off choices of translation methods.By means of objectively evaluation of the merits and demerits of the two translation versions of Qiu Chuang Feng Yu Xi,the rationality of existence of the translations in a specific cultural background is explained.It is proved that Skopos Theory is one of the general methods for the English translation of poems in Chinese classical novels.展开更多
Fuzziness is universal in all human language in the world.It provides the literature works with inexhaustible beauty and charm.Chinese classical poetry is characterized by its suggestive,subtlety and implicitness.Ther...Fuzziness is universal in all human language in the world.It provides the literature works with inexhaustible beauty and charm.Chinese classical poetry is characterized by its suggestive,subtlety and implicitness.Therefore the author tries to study the fuzziness of Ma Zhiyuan’s Qiu Si and its translation from the perspective of fuzzy linguistics.展开更多
Qiu Jun in the Ming Dynasty was one of the most outstanding figures to systematically illustrate anti-monopoly thoughts in the 15th century.Qiu's thoughts include three aspects:1.conceptually,he was not for the Mo...Qiu Jun in the Ming Dynasty was one of the most outstanding figures to systematically illustrate anti-monopoly thoughts in the 15th century.Qiu's thoughts include three aspects:1.conceptually,he was not for the Monarch's expropriation of the country;2.mechanically,he opposed the government's encroachment of merchants'interest;and 3.theoretically,he was against merchant's embezzlement of the interest of the market.His criticism largely focuses on the Monarch and the government in order to rectify the unhealthy tendency of the unjustified interference and monopoly over the industry and business by the government officials.Qiu called for the return of the market to the society and the government's role of public welfare.Qiu's thoughts in anti-monopoly are the specific illustration of classic Confucianism and a great achievement in Man's war a—gainst anti-monopoly.展开更多
文摘Qiu Sheng Fu,is considered as one of the finest works in Chinese literature, famous for its daring imagery. The translation of this masterpiece exposes a most difficult task for translators. The author picks out two well-accepted translated versions:one is Ruo Jingguo's Ode To The Sound Of Autumn and L. Cranmer-Byng's Autumn, as the author sees it, they are the typical example of semantic translation and communicative translation of the source text respectively. From this perspective, the writer aims to make a comparative study and demonstrate the differences between the two.
文摘Hong Lou Meng is one of the most important works in Chinese classical novels,and the author,Cao Xueqin,gave his own understanding of the feudal society and his exclamation of the fickleness of the world in the novel.Up to now,the novel and the poems in the novel are still of high artistic value.Qiu Chuang Feng Yu Xi,as one of the most artistic and representative poems in the novel,has been translated into English by many translators.Among the translations,Yang Xianyi’s translation and David Hawkes’translation have the highest artistic achievements.Yang Xianyi is a famous Chinese translator and David Hawkes is a world-renowned sinologist in Britain.Because of their distinct identities,their translation purposes and translation styles are totally different.Guided by German translator Hans Vermeer’s Skopos Theory,this paper investigates the prologues of the translations of Hong Lou Meng and the translators’biographies.The findings indicate the respective translation purposes of Yang Xianyi and David Hawkes and their trade-off choices of translation methods.By means of objectively evaluation of the merits and demerits of the two translation versions of Qiu Chuang Feng Yu Xi,the rationality of existence of the translations in a specific cultural background is explained.It is proved that Skopos Theory is one of the general methods for the English translation of poems in Chinese classical novels.
文摘Fuzziness is universal in all human language in the world.It provides the literature works with inexhaustible beauty and charm.Chinese classical poetry is characterized by its suggestive,subtlety and implicitness.Therefore the author tries to study the fuzziness of Ma Zhiyuan’s Qiu Si and its translation from the perspective of fuzzy linguistics.
文摘Qiu Jun in the Ming Dynasty was one of the most outstanding figures to systematically illustrate anti-monopoly thoughts in the 15th century.Qiu's thoughts include three aspects:1.conceptually,he was not for the Monarch's expropriation of the country;2.mechanically,he opposed the government's encroachment of merchants'interest;and 3.theoretically,he was against merchant's embezzlement of the interest of the market.His criticism largely focuses on the Monarch and the government in order to rectify the unhealthy tendency of the unjustified interference and monopoly over the industry and business by the government officials.Qiu called for the return of the market to the society and the government's role of public welfare.Qiu's thoughts in anti-monopoly are the specific illustration of classic Confucianism and a great achievement in Man's war a—gainst anti-monopoly.