A Report On The Chinese Translation Of Society In China Chapters(13-15)

As a monograph of Sinological study, this book shows a encyclopedic view about China for westerners and Chinese scholars. As a diplomat and scholar deeply influenced by the Christianity,based on his experience in China and the references of Peking Press folktales and plays and British Blue Book, Robert Douglas completes this book which was first printed in 1894. Therefore the Chinese translation of this book has historical and cultural values.The content of chapter 13, chapt14 and chapterl5 are the UK’s commercial relations with China, the war of 1860 and foreign relations, which include a lot of historical events such as the trade exchanges between UK and China, the Arrow affair, the opium war, a serial of treaty assignment, the capture and burning of Yuen-Ming-Yuen, the T’aip’ing rebellion, the murder of the Rev.James Williamson, the murder of Mr. Margary etc.This translation report mainly includes five parts.The first part is about the background knowledge. The first part gives a brief introduction of the book, the author, and the language features of the source text. The second part is the introduction of the task process, which includes text analysis and literature reading. The third part is a brief introduction to Peter newmark’s semantic translation and communicative translation and back translations studies which guides the translation of the book. The fourth part is a case analysis, introducing the translation difficulties and the translation strategies from lexical and syntactic levels respectively. The fifth part, the shortcomings of the translation practice are summarized and practical suggestions are provided for future translation work.