Report On English Translation Of Traditional Chinese Culture And The Community Of Shared Future For Mankind (Excerpts) Guided By Cultural Translation Theory

Traditional Chinese Culture and the Community of Shared Future for Mankind by Professor Zhang Liwen is a masterwork enhancing China’s participation and discourse power and constructing Chinese discourse system under the strategy “Chinese culture going out”.And it explains the historical and theoretical origins of traditional Chinese culture and the concept of “the community of shared future for mankind”,presents“harmony” promoted in traditional Chinese culture and builds a theoretical system of“harmony”.The translation of this book plays a vital role in implementing the novel concept of governance — the initiative of the community of shared future for mankind proposed by General Secretary Xi Jinping and making this concept accepted by more people.So it is a difficult task to translate the cultural connotations of culture-specific terms in the original work into the target language accurately,fluently and completely.Cultural translation theory proposed by Susan Bassnett provides the theoretical support for the translation.This translation report,with Bassnett’s cultural translation theory as the guidance and Fernando Poyato’s “culturemes” as the reference,focuses on the translation of culturemes and aims at creating equivalent reading effect between the original readers and the target readers through utilizing cultural compensation and cultural adaptation.Cultural compensation is achieved by using translation methods like transliteration with annotation and literal translation with annotation,while cultural adaptation is achieved by translation methods like free translation and imitation translation.This report summarizes cultural compensation and cultural adaptation used in translating cultural information-based texts,hoping to provide some reference for the translation of such texts.