Anti-japanese War Period, Study Of Xia Yan All Translated Japanese Anti-war Works

Xia Yan as a translator, he attached great importance to the acceptance of foreignliterature, and put them into Chinese literature through translation. His translationsworks included a wide range of subjects, from literature, art, culture, and social sciences,etc. His translation activities not only let the Chinese people have a better understandingabout the foreign literature, but also linked the Chinese literature with foreign literatureclosely.His translations had a positive and wide social influence at that time,and maderemarkable achievements,especially during the Anti Japanese war was at a stalemateperiod,he translated Tatsuzo Ishikawa’s novel "Living Soldier", the Japanese anti warwriter LuDigen’s three-act play "three brothers",and"enemy array Diaries" whichcompiled with TianHan,these three works could be said to be very timely with thenational anti-war of anti-Japanese propaganda,they inspired and couraged our nationalto fight the anti-Japanese war,also beat the enemy’s arrogance.Xia Yan embarked ontranslating,were not only accidental,but also inevitable. Xia Yan specializes inengineering, but he had a great interested in literary,he tried to translate KikuchiHiroshi’s "drama studies" while he studying in Japan. And then went on the literaryworld.In the20th century, the Marx baptism had just spread to Japan, Xia Yan whohad experienced The May4th Movement was just studying in Japan.During that time,hegot the proletarian ideology after reading Marx, Engels classics carefully,the articlesthat he selected to translated, were all representative works of Japanese left-wingliteratures.Especially in the most difficult period of Anti-Japanese War, he had translatedJapanese anti-war progressives works, used "pen" to declare war on Japan.Xia yan’stranslation activities is not a pure behavior that translate for translation’s sake. Combinewith his life experience, it is not difficult to find his translation works also has theutilitarian and limitations.Currently,researches about Xia Yan’s translation of theJapanese anti-war are very scarce, therefore it is necessary to do a in-depth research onXia Yan’s translation of the Japanese anti war at anti-Japanese time. Depending on theangle of Translation Studies, combined with the background, author’s experience andchoice of subject matter translating these areas to study Xia Yan’s Translation of Japanese anti-war in anti-Japanese time.