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Zhi LI
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DOI:10.17265/1539-8080/2017.02.007
College of International Studies, Southwest University, Chongqing, China
Since the 1990s, the study of translated ancient Chinese Classics has been a heated topic for discussion in China, and views have emerged like mushroom after spring rain. Almost all the studies have been made from the cultural, functional and deconstructionalist perspectives, which concentrate primarily on translating strategies and principles. However, the following problems that arise in the studies remain to be solved: reduplicate studies of the same translated text or book (from the same perspective, such as cultural), disintegration of theories and practice, abstract and impractical theories in the study, unsystematic analysis and comparison of translated texts and personal preference in the choice of translated texts to be researched. Therefore, this paper has provided the following points for readers’ consideration: to broaden the object of study by choosing non-literary texts, to attach much importance to the study of social, cultural and esthetical elements of the translated texts, and to describe the translator’s process of translation, purpose, and decision such as translating strategies, and to analyze translator’s choice of source texts and choice of words by using corpus-based approach, and summarize translator’s own research of Chinese Classics to be translated.
English version of ancient Chinese Classics, study, perspective, suggestions
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