Chinese Online Novel Translation Under the Guidance of Reception Aesthetics
A Case Study of the English Version of Battle Through the Heavens
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https://doi.org/10.54097/ijeh.v7i3.6338Keywords:
Reception aesthetics, Online novels, Battle Through the Heavens.Abstract
Online novels have achieved a certain degree of success in the foreign dissemination of Chinese culture. The research on the translation of online novels is conducive to the decoding on the success of cultural communications abroad. This paper takes the translation of Battle Through the Heavens by Kong Xuesong as an example from the perspective of the theory of reception aesthetics to discuss the translator's translation strategies and study how to provide a better translation through the analysis of the characteristics of network novels and the current situation of translation.
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