Author：SHAO Lu

Abstract: Introduction: Translation and the Life of Literary Works Across Languages

Vol. 10 No.1 June 2026      Time：2026-07-24

Author：TAN Zaixi

Abstract: Under the country’s initiative to make Chinese literature and culture “go international,” the translation of Chinese texts into English and other foreign languages, including texts in the various fields of literature, culture, and academia, has been developing rapidly with government funding support. Its study has in recent years also become a focal point, which seems a fitting response in TS research in China to the problems and interferences brought about by factors in the political and economic world at large. This paper offers a discussion of some of the major issues involving how to handle Chinese mother-tongue to English-language translating. These include issues on the linguistic and cultural politics of interlingual/cross-cultural communication (“inbound” vs. “outbound” translation), the intrinsic relations between outbound ...

Vol. 10 No.1 June 2026      Time：2026-07-24

Author：SHAO Lu

Abstract: This paper proposes a new method of measuring text fuzziness in equivalence between a target text (TT) and its source text (ST) by employing Claude Shannon’s information entropy theory. The method is demonstrated through a four-step algorithmic process using illustrative examples from the novel The Da Vinci Code and its two Chinese translations. Specifically, information entropy is applied to measure the uncertainty associated with readers’ understanding of the ST and its corresponding TTs. The underlying hypothesis is that the probability distribution of which readers will understand...

Vol. 10 No.1 June 2026      Time：2026-07-24

Author：YU Yajing

Abstract: In metaphor translation, adjustments such as expansion, narrowing, refinement, or supplementary elaboration often occur to the source domain imagery, but the impact of these adjustments on the effectiveness of deliberate metaphors remains to be explored. Taking the cases of deliberate metaphors in the award-winning works of the “Mao Dun Literature Prize” as examples and based on Deliberate Metaphor Theory, this study analyzes the specific impact of the adjustment of source domain imagery on the effectiveness of deliberate metaphors. It finds that such adjustments, when aligned with the...

Vol. 10 No.1 June 2026      Time：2026-07-24