Cultural Reconstruction

ISBN-13: 9783847303015 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 80 str.

Yangbo Wu

Opis

In translation between Chinese and English, there exists a special phenomenon. When English literary works about "Chinese stories" are translated back into Chinese again, it has something to do with cultural reconstruction, or a sort of back-translation. "Moment in Peking", one of Dr. Lin Yutangs representatives, is a typical example of such writings. This book is intended to probe the cultural aspects of "Moment in Peking" and the reconstruction issue in its two Chinese versions. Based on Peter Newmarks cultural categories model, this book makes a detailed comparative study of the two translators different versions in terms of the same categories of cultural elements from the perspective of the translators subjectivity. It hopes to cast light on improving the back-translation of cultural elements in this kind of special literary works, and builds a more systematic model of assessing the translation of cultural elements of literary works in general.

O autorze

MA of Guangdong University of Foreign Studies, majoring in Translation Studies. Now, a college English teacher in Zhejiang Agriculture and Forestry University of China. Several academic articles in the field of translated literature have been published in magazines.