A Rewriting Theoretic Approach to Ken Liu’s Translation of Folding Beijing

Chen Yingxuan
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Chen Yingxuan: School of Interpreting and Translation Studies, GuangdongUniversity of Foreign Studies –Guangdong, China

English Literature and Language Review, 2020, vol. 6, issue 7, 110-118

Abstract: Given Folding Beijing’s great importance to Chinese science fictions after winning the 2016 Hugo Award for Best Novelette and Ken Liu’s active engagement in promoting modern Chinese literary works to go global, this paper endeavors to explain how the influences of ideology, poetics and patronage are displayed in Folding Beijing’s English translation from the perspective of Lefevere’s Rewriting Theory. Instead of focusing on the linguistic elements of the translation, the current study attempts to reveal the cultural, social, ideological, and poetical effects on the translator’s decision-making process and tries to explore the reasons for the novelette’s success. It is believed that this paper can, to a certain extent, not only provide beneficial guidance for future practitioners in this translation field, but also offer some reference for the study of translation of Chinese contemporary science fictions.

Keywords: Folding Beijing; Ken Liu; The rewriting theory (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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