Literature Review of the English Translation of Red Poppies

Shan LÜ, Changbao LI

Abstract


Red Poppies is the first full-length novel of A Lai, a Tibetan writer. With its unique narrative perspective and rich Tibetan culture, it gets the Fifth Mao Dun Literature Award and is selected as one of the 70 classic novels collected during the 70 years of New China, winning numerous accolades. The English translation of Red Poppies, translated by the famous translator Howard Goldblatt and his wife Sylvia Li-chun Lin, has attracted widespread attention since its publication and is named a bestseller of the year by the Los Angeles Times. However, through the investigation, it is found that there is still a lack of research on the translation of this novel. According to the statistics of CNKI, from 2002 to the present, there are only 43 translation studies on the text of Red Poppies, and the research perspectives are also limited, such as focusing on Skopostheorie, literary stylistics, rewriting theory and narratology, etc. Thus, it can be seen that there is still a lot of room for further studies on the translation of this novel. The purpose of this paper is to sort out the research status of the English translation of Red Poppies and try to find room for further research in order to help the Chinese culture go abroad.

 


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Red Poppies; English translation; literature review

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