A research of Chinese poetry translation by developing prosody equivalence model.

2018 ◽  
Vol 23 (1) ◽  
pp. 195-217
Author(s):  
Jae-Woong Chang ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Chinese Poetry ◽  
Poetry Translation ◽  
Equivalence Model

Cultural loss in the English translation of Chinese poetry

Babel ◽  
2010 ◽  
Vol 56 (2) ◽  
pp. 168-185 ◽  
Author(s):  
Liu Yang
Keyword(s):  
English Translation ◽  
Target Language ◽  
Cultural Translation ◽  
Chinese Poetry ◽  
Aesthetic Value ◽  
Poetry Translation ◽  
Free Translation ◽  
Basic Concepts ◽  
Sound Foundation ◽  
Language Text

Translation is to reproduce the meaning and style of a source language text in a target language text in consideration of the cultural differences. Because of dramatic differences between the cultures, translators have to sacrifice something, such as time, religious connotation, and the wording of the original poem to obtain its aesthetic value and its original beauty. In this paper the author examines the poetry translation focusing on the basic concepts of cultural translation and the difficulties of Chinese poetry translation, and special attentions are paid on losses and the strategies in the translation. Beginning from the basic concepts of cultural translation, the paper expounds the essence of the cultural translation in order to lay a sound foundation for the following analysis of the poetry translation. In Part 2, the paper points out the difficulties of Chinese poetry translation that arise from the differences between Chinese and English cultures .Part 3 is a tentative analysis of the losses in the English translation of Chinese poetry and categorizes the losses into four groups:the loss of time;the loss of religious connotation ;the loss in wording; the loss of allusion. To address the losses, the author proposes several strategies such as free translation , transfer of allusion and annotation.

scholarly journals The English Translation of Tang Poetry Based on Cultural Self-confidence and Selective Adaptation-Taking “Changgan Xing” as an Example

2019 ◽  
pp. 75-81
Author(s):  
Wang Xu ◽  
Wang Feng ◽  
Zeng Yan
Keyword(s):  
English Translation ◽  
Soft Power ◽  
Chinese Culture ◽  
Selective Adaptation ◽  
Chinese Poetry ◽  
Aesthetic Value ◽  
Self Confidence ◽  
Tang Poetry ◽  
Poetry Translation ◽  
Cultural Self

Tang poetry has great poetic and aesthetic value. Based on the theories of cultural self-confidence and selective adaptation, the necessity and rationality of the English translation of Tang poetry will be discussed under the guidance of "Harmony-guided Three-level Criteria of Poetry Translation", and comparative analyses of five English versions of Li Bai’s “Changgan Xing” will be made. The study holds that "Harmony-guided Three-level Criteria of Poetry Translation" not only embodies cultural self-confidence, but also conforms to the spiritual essence of the theory of selective adaptation. It can effectively disseminate Chinese poetry and improve the soft power of Chinese culture.

scholarly journals Zen and the “Image” in Tang Poetry

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 ◽  
pp. 1-14
Author(s):  
Tim Barrett
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
English Language ◽  
Sufficient Evidence ◽  
Chinese Poetry ◽  
Tang Poetry ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Poetry Translation ◽  
Poetic Inspiration ◽  
Poetic Imagery ◽  
Poetic Practice

The purpose of the title of this piece is to suggest that behind the bland exterior of the average medieval Chinese poem (at least in English translation) there may lurk processes of composition entirely unsuspected by the modern reader, aspects of the Tang poem that might repay greater study. This approach, namely meditation as a method of creative inspiration, was far from universal in the poetry of the Tang period, since it seems to have arisen within specific historical circumstances, and though references to it remained and were handed down to later ages in widely read works, it is at present unclear how actively it was practised in later times. However, there is sufficient evidence to suggest that an interest in poetic imagery remained strong in East Asia, raising the possibility that it was this aspect of poetic practice there caught the attention of English language poets in the United Kingdom at the start of the twentieth century as they cast about for new models to replace the poetry of Victorian times. The hope is that drawing attention to this approach to poetic inspiration in this essay may serve as a challenge to the current lack of interest in Chinese poetry translation in the United Kingdom.

scholarly journals Chinese Translation of Emily Dickinson’s Poetry: Translation Features of Shi Li’s Lilacs in the Sky

2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 177-192
Author(s):  
Jianxin Zhou
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
Chinese Poetry ◽  
Poetic Form ◽  
Chinese Translation ◽  
Source Language ◽  
Python Language ◽  
Language Structure ◽  
Rich Description ◽  
Poetry Translation ◽  
Poetry Collection

Using program written in python language to conduct a statistical and comparative analysis of poetic form and vocabulary use of Emily Dickinson's poems and its Chinese translation in the poetry collection, Lilacs in the Sky, translated by Shi Li, to reveal features of the translation. It is found that in translation, there is a large number of increases in stanzas and a relatively small adjustment in verse lines; a large number of dashes are omitted or translated into commas, and many commas are added, exclamation marks are basically deleted. Prepositions and conjunctions are used less frequently, making language structure less complete, and lyrical intensity is slightly inferior to the original. The less number of adjectives results in less delicate and less rich description in translation, but large increase in verbs and four-character words make translation more concrete, vivid and cordial. In short, the translation version deviates significantly from the original in terms of poetic form and vocabulary use, and the translation expression tends to be closer to the standard of Chinese poetry expression rather than to the source language.

Poetic dialogue analysis of Chinese–English poetry translation

2012 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 262-282 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jianzhong Xu ◽  
Chengxia Chang
Keyword(s):  
Translation Studies ◽  
Target Language ◽  
Chinese Poetry ◽  
English Poetry ◽  
Source Text ◽  
Poetry Translation ◽  
Challenging Tasks ◽  
The Ancient Chinese

The translation of ancient Chinese Poetry into English is considered to be one of the most challenging tasks not only because of the different features between the two languages, especially as they belong to different linguistic families, but also the unique features of the ancient Chinese poetry itself.. This paper, by applying poetry dialogue analysis based on dialogism, explores the operation of its elements such as context, subject, sense, image, the reader and text form, and tries to seek out the mechanism for understanding the source text and reproducing what the source contains in the target language, thus shedding light on poetry translation studies.

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