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A Study of News Translation From the Perspective of the Manipulation Theory
ZHANG Shixin, LYU Liangqiu
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DOI:10.17265/1539-8080/2019.12.002
North China Electric Power University, Beijing, China
Aiming to improve Chinese to English news translation, this study chooses as object the translation of news on China Daily, a news outlet in China. Through analyzing the pros and cons of selected text under the guidance of the manipulation theory, it is found that the translator must take into account the three main factors, which are ideology, patronage, and poetics while translating Chinese news into English.
manipulation theory, news translation, ideology
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