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DOI:10.17265/2161-6248/2023.03.006
Guangxi University of Foreign Languages, Nanning, China
Leifeng Pagoda Legend is a Qing Dynasty vernacular novel about gods, demons, and ghosts. It tells the story between the famous Chinese folk legend of Bai Suzhen and Xu Xian. The novel contains a large number of cultural loaded words with rich connotations, such as names, traditional Chinese cultural elements, idioms, etc., which bring great difficulties to translation. As early as the 1840s, French sinologist Julien translated this novel into French and published it in France. This article takes the cultural loaded words in the Julian’s translation as the starting point, and selects specific cases to analyze the translation strategies used in it. The study on the French version of Leifeng Pagoda Legend will help to provide practical and specific reference for contemporary Chinese French translation practice, provide some reference value and practical application for the translation of culture loaded words in Chinese classical literature, and further enrich the external dissemination of Chinese classical literature.
Leifeng Pagoda, Julien, culture loaded words, translation
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