≪雪中梅≫中译本的翻译策略

Abstract

Secchubaiis a famous political novel from the Meiji period in Japan. With the aim of promoting Western civil rights political ideology, it was translated into Chinese and spread in China during the late Qing Dynasty. Chinese translations are mainly translated through text to text translation and direct copying of Chinese poetry. In the late Qing Dynasty of China, due to the immaturity of Japanese translation techniques, the content related to traditional Japanese waka in Secchubaiwas only omitted in a way that keep the articles before and after of waka. Moreover, the Chinese translation of Secchubaiinot only follows the original content and omits waka, but also adds storyteller’s formulaic language that are not present in the original work. Therefore, the Chinese translation has freed itself from the identity constraints of the original narrator and formed a narrative feature of using the speaker as the narrator. The storyteller’s formulaic language plays a role throughout the entire text. This makes the Chinese translation more suitable for Chinese readers’ reading and understanding, and more conducive to Chinese readers’ acceptance of the political propositions and ideas conveyed by political novels.