Author：Liqun Hao, Wentie Chen

Abstract: As a term in narratology, “unnatural” is widely studied. The current translation of “unnatural” by the Chinese scholars is非自然, but the author of this paper holds that this translation is not proper. Then in what aspect is the translation problematic and what should be the more appropriate one? T...

Column：Translation Studies   091-102   Details

Author：Bing Wan

Abstract: Starting from music communication theory, this essay explores the translation of new folk songs of She Nationality into English. It concludes that the translation of new folk songs pertains to lyrics; while the communication of new folk songs pertains to music. In this sense, the translation of new folk songs of She Nationality is music communication.

Column：Translation Studies   103-114   Details

Author：Chengcheng Ye, Gaosheng Deng

Abstract: The publication of Legends of the Condor Heroes I: A Hero Born has attracted people’s attention to Wuxia fiction once again, which in turn has triggered discussions in academic circles on the English translation of Louis Cha’s novels and their specific cultural backgrounds. By comparin...

Column：Translation Studies   115-124   Details

Author：Daoying Liu, Mingsheng Zhu

Abstract: This paper explores developments in the translation of Journey to the West on the basis of 311 scholarly papers from 1980 to 2018 adopted from Chinese Knowledge Network Database (CNKI). The purpose of this paper is to deal with the current potential problems, development, and highli...

Column：Translation Studies   125-135   Details

Author：Geqi Wu

Abstract: Specialization, which can be interpreted from epistemic relation and social relation, is one of the important dimensions in Legitimation Code Theory. This article begins with an introduction to the concept of specialization, and then studies its application to the analysis of research ar...

Column：Liguistic Studies   136-146   Details

Author：Hongkun Li, Jiehong Bai

Abstract: This study makes a statistical analysis of the important journal publications on textual coherence over the last twenty five years in China, examing their theoretical stance, research focus, research methodology and findings. Results of the study have shown that: 1) Textual coherence studies in China de...

Column：Liguistic Studies   147-156   Details

Author：Ning Wang

Abstract: As an eminent scholar and critic of China’s foreign literature studies in the contemporary era, Liu Mingjiu has a wide reputation and influence in China’s literary, critical, and academic circles. He has in a long academic and critical career worked very hard and achieved a great deal in the study of French literary history as well...

Column：Literature Studies   001-011   Details

Author：Yan Zeng

Abstract: Ellen Glasgow's The Battle-Ground came out in the early 20th century, when American southern society experienced significant post-Reconstruction social transition and plantation romance led the literary trend among postbellum southern writers. In response to the features and embedded ideologies of...

Column：Literature Studies   012-021   Details

Author：Siyuan Zhou

Abstract: Death Kit, Susan Sontag’s novel, is often criticized as quite abstruse and unfathomable. Inspections of the implicit artistic element, “Double”, are invited to denote the uncanny plots, to figure out the blended characters, and to clarify the historical context. By doing so, the connotations of trauma, which are knitted into characters' psychology, writer’s self-confrontation, and reflections on American history, can be highlighted.

Column：Literature Studies   022-030   Details

Author： Chuanfang Zeng

Abstract: Slavery in the United States reduced slaves to ciphers or nonbeings, who were simply regarded as part of the décor of white life uncredited with human thought or sensibilities, or with the possession of a private self. William Styron, believing it inhumane to do so...

Column：Literature Studies   031-039   Details