허버트 앨런 자일스 《중국 동화집(Chinese Fairy Tales)》 속 《聊齋志異》 번역 양상

Abstract

This paper was written to examine the translation of Liaozhaizhiyi in Herbert Allen Giles’s Chinese Fairy Tales. Giles is a British diplomat and Chinese scholar in China. His most representative translation is Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio a book that is translated from Liaozhaizhiyi by PuSongling. Later, while compiling Chinese Fairy Tales Giles included eight stories in Liaozhaizhiyi as fairy tales. This paper examines the reasons for Giles’ inclusion of Liaozhaizhiyi in the Chinese Fairy Tales and the meaning of the reconstruction as a fairy tale, and analyzed the translation of Liaozhaizhiyi as a work of children’s literature based on the skopos theory through comparison with the Chinese original and Giles’s adult translation of Liaozhaizhiyi Since the skopos theory is a theory that emphasizes the establishment of a translation strategy according to the composition and characteristics of the target reader, it was applied to analyze the characteristics of the translation of a fairy tale Liaozhaizhiyi targeting a specific reader. As a result of analyzing Liaozhaizhiyi in eight Chinese Fairy Tales, it was found that the sentence structure was simpler than that of the Liaozhaizhiyi translation for adults, and there was also a lively effect that is common in children’s literature works. In addition, it was described in detail so that ambiguous information was clearly expressed. Through these characteristics, it was revealed that the most important aspect of Giles’s adaptation of Liaozhaizhiyi into a work of children’s literature was that children had fun and realized educational values.