A Study On The English Translation Of Wang Kuei And Li Hsiang-Hsiang From The Perspective Of Eco-translatology

In the early period of construction of the People’s Republic of China,the foreign translation took on the responsibility of establishing a new image of the country and transmitting the country’s political culture,in which Yang Hsienyi and Gladys Yang were the most representative and outstanding translators.Wang Kuei and Li Hsiang-Hsiang is the first long narrative poem translated on Chinese Literature(English Version)after the founding of New China by Yangs and it is loved by readers in especial translational ecoenvironment.Eco-translatology is a self-contained and systematic translation theory put forward by Professor Hu Gengsheng.The concepts of “natural selection” and “survival of the fittest” into translations are introduced,thus providing a new interdisciplinary perspective on translation studies.In this article,the adaptability and three-dimensional adaptive selection of the Yangs in Wang Kuei and Li Hsiang-Hsiang were explored from the perspective of eco-translation.It is found that Chinese translational eco-environment had changed a lot in the early period of new China construction because of the special political environment,and the Yangs have adapted to such eco-environment in multi-dimension and successfully realize the purpose of foreign translation.The English translation of Wang Kuei and Li HsiangHsiang not only meets the needs of propaganda,but also fit in with the three-dimensional adaptive selection.In the language dimension,it continues the plain and straightforward writing style of the original poem and faithfully restores the language style of the main characters in the poem;in the cultural dimension,it remains the image of the source culture and adds notes to the content that target readers may not understand;in the communicative dimension,it transmits the revolutionary thought and spirit of the original poem,highlighting the theme of “revolution”.