Gladys Yang’s Translation Strategies In Leaden Wings Under The Rewriting Theory

Gladys Yang was a famous translator who made great contributions to the overseas promotion of Chinese literature.As a female translator,she especially translated and promoted works of Chinese female writers.Leaden Wings was one of them.It was a novel written by a modern female writer Zhang Jie,focusing on the Four Modernizations and industrialization.It also reflected the awakening of women’ s independent consciousness.The novel has had great influence in western society,partly due to Yang’s superb translation.As a female translator,Yang made a lot of rewriting in her translation to highlight the female theme in the text.From the perspective of the rewriting theory,the thesis studies Glady Yang’s translation strategies in Leaden Wings and provides answers to the following questions:1)How did the translation of Gladys Yang reflect the influence of patronage,ideologies and poetics?2)What translation strategies were used in the translation of Leaden Wings?This thesis conducts a case study,that is,analysis of Zhang’s original text and Yang’s translation,as well as documents about patrons,ideology and poetics related to this translation activity.The study finds that:1)Yang selected female writers’ novels for translation,and highlighted the female consciousness in the texts,which all reflected the influence of patrons,ideology and poetics;2)Yang mainly used strategies such as adding a list of principle characters,adding preface and afterword,deleting expressions with gender discrimination,changing the subject and personal pronoun,adding degree verb and logical connective,adjusting sentence order,rewriting sentences,abridgements of arguments about politics and highlighting complexity in female images.