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International Journal of English Literature and Culture Vol. 2(2), pp. 12 –17, February, 2014 ISSN: 2360-7831 DOI: 10.14662/IJELC2014.007
Review Effects of Government Policy on the Retranslation Boom in the 1990s Mainland China and beyond
Chuanmao Tian
School of Foreign Studies, Yangtze University, Hubei, 434023 P. R. China. E-mail: Tcm_316@163.com
Accepted 6 February 2014
With the
establishment of a corpus of two classic English novels Pride and
Prejudice and David Copperfield with their originals and several
Chinese (re)translations, the present study explores the reasons for
the retranslation boom in mainland China in the 1990s. By siting
translators, publishers and government policy in historical
contexts, it has been found that the shift of government policy from
class struggle to economic construction, reform and opening-up is
the major reason for the retranslating boom in mainland China in the
1990s. |
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