Review and Prospect of the Research on the Translation of Honglou meng： Comment on The Translator’s Mirror for the Romantic：Cao Xueqin’s Dream and David Hawkes’ Stone

QIAO Yunkai; ZHU Mingsheng

doi:10.19857/j.cnki.ICL.20247408

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QIAO Yunkai, ZHU Mingsheng. Review and Prospect of the Research on the Translation of Honglou meng： Comment on The Translator’s Mirror for the Romantic：Cao Xueqin’s Dream and David Hawkes’ Stone[J]. International Comparative Literature, 2024, 7(4): 128-144. doi: 10.19857/j.cnki.ICL.20247408

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QIAO Yunkai, ZHU Mingsheng. Review and Prospect of the Research on the Translation of Honglou meng： Comment on The Translator’s Mirror for the Romantic：Cao Xueqin’s Dream and David Hawkes’ Stone[J]. International Comparative Literature, 2024, 7(4): 128-144. doi: 10.19857/j.cnki.ICL.20247408

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Review and Prospect of the Research on the Translation of Honglou meng： Comment on The Translator’s Mirror for the Romantic：Cao Xueqin’s Dream and David Hawkes’ Stone

doi: 10.19857/j.cnki.ICL.20247408

QIAO Yunkai¹,
ZHU Mingsheng²

1. ustralian National University;
2. Nantong University

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QIAO Yunkai，a postgraduate student at the College of Asia and the Pacific of Australian National University，with research interests on Chinese-Western comparative literature;ZHU Mingsheng is a professor and master supervisor at the School of Foreign Studies of Nantong University. His research fields are comparative literature， translation studies， and English-Chinese language comparison.
Received Date: 2024-10-09
Accepted Date: 2024-10-25

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The study of the translation of Honglou meng， as a heated topic in Honglou meng studies， has been going on for more than forty years， and a large number of research results have emerged in domestic and international academic circles. International scholars such as Wang Jin and Laurence K. P. Wong have tried to cut into the story of Honglou meng and its translation from a theoretical perspective， placing the translation under the theoretical framework and focusing on issues such as the linguistic styles of different translations and the translation strategies of different translators. The various works published by domestic scholars such as Feng Qinghua and Feng Quangong mainly focus on the comparison between different translations and technical issues of translation， but pay less attention to the position of translation and strategies of translators with different cultural identities. Most of these domestic and foreign studies do not regard the translation and the original as independent works， but rather judge the quality of the translation on basis of the original work. However， many domestic and foreign scholars are keenly aware of the value of studying translation as an independent work. Fan Shengyu’s book The Translator’s Mirror for the Romantic： Cao Xueqin’s Dream and David Hawkes’ Stone， published in 2022， is a pioneering work that systematically studies Hawkes’s translation as an independent literary work. Based on the first-hand materials left by Hawkes and Minford， Fan shows readers the vast cultural world beyond the text of Hawkes’s translation from the perspective of reading， writing and the art of revision in a non-theoretical way of textual close-reading. A review of representative research works on English translations can， on the one hand， review the goals that have been achieved； on the other hand， it helps navigate the direction of future research on the translation of Honglou meng that promotes Chinese literature to go global， exploring a unique way to make Chinese literary experience a world literary experience.
- Study on the translation of Hongloumeng,
- non-theoretical perspective,
- close-reading,
- reading， writing and revision

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