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On Pearl S. Buck’s Translation of All Men Are Brothers— from the Perspective of Cultural Relativism

Author: ZhangHaiYan
Tutor: HanJiangHong
School: Hefei University of Technology
Course: English Language and Literature
Keywords: Pearl S. Buck Outlaws of the Marsh English translation Cultural relativism
CLC: H315.9
Type: Master's thesis
Year: 2010
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Abstract


\Been domestic tournament translations on mixed even derogatory than praise. The criticism she asked that asked too much in culture and ignore the differences between Chinese and Western cultures, and thus her this translation is \her translation in the role of maintaining the independence of the Chinese language, so she asked a better dissemination of Chinese culture, the purpose of cultural exchange. Why Pearl S. Buck's translation is so special that domestic experts and scholars on its evaluation of such a big difference? This article from the perspective of cultural relativism to explore this issue. Her cultural outlook, we can see from the translation of the Pearl S. Buck. Her childhood living in two worlds, nurtured by the Eastern and Western culture. However, due to the time between East and West cultural barriers or deep, living between two cultures, the Pearl S. Buck as a cultural edge, its rough experience made her aware of intercultural must learn to respect each other, the only way to achieve cultural exchange and ultimately cultural integration, promote the common progress of human culture. Her idea is the cultural relativism manifestation of thought: there are a variety of cultures in this world, we should not take certain rules or principles as universal standards of all cultures conclusion, because one set of values ??is always determined by a cultural system does not exist beyond the cultural values. With the help of cultural relativism as a theoretical tool to investigate the causes of the Pearl S. Buck and cultural relativistic thinking, in order to explain the causes of their special translation. By describing the translation process of the Pearl S. Buck, the translation features as well as its translation in the West to accept the situation, this article will further explain why she chose to translate strategy is influenced by her unique cultural outlook. Select some representative examples in order to make the exposition more complete, fifth from the race translations analysis to look at the Pearl S. Buck's cultural perspective is how to reflect in its translation, and still, from the perspective of cultural relativism to explore next race translations in certainly different cultural values, advocate the need for multicultural great significance in this regard. Although recent years, scholars have begun to re-examine the Pearl S. Buck's translation, but no one from the perspective of cultural relativism to explore, and certainly its translation is limited to a celebration of translation of the Chinese culture in the Cultural Exchange identifiable and to maintain the independence on the significance. By means of cultural relativism to study race translations of \In future research, we can have the spirit of cultural relativism, which are for the harmonious coexistence between our research like Pearl Buck this cultural edge writers and cultural reference.

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