关键词: 《红楼梦》; 伊藤漱平; 翻译研究; 汉日翻译; 中国古典文学

Abstract:

Itô Sohei is a Redologist, a textual critic and also a renowned translator both at home and abroad. His effort has helped to connect the Japanese academia of Redology with its counterpart in China and the rest of the world, enabling Redology in Japan to claim a place in the prospering Redology in the world and making significant contribution to the translation and research of A Dream of Red Mansions. However, after reviewing previous studies at home and abroad the author finds that despite Itô Sohei’s remarkable accomplishment in the translation of A Dream of Red Mansions, researches directed to his translation have just started and are far from satisfying both in quantity and quality. Firstly, although some research results have been published during the last five years, the study of Itô Sohei’s Japanese translation of A Dream of Red Mansions is still scanty and shallow overall. Secondly, the existing researches lack theoretical perspectives and new methodology from translation studies and other related disciplines. In addition, less attention than necessary is paid to some other important issues such as stylistics and reader’s reception of Itô Sohei’s translation of A Dream of Red Mansions in previous researches. This thesis further proposes that the future research should be organically combined with the latest achievements in contemporary translation theories, and the depth and width of the study of Japanese translation of Itô Rinheung’s A Dream of Red Mansions should be broadened, thus translation theories can be truly integrated into the text.

Keywords: A Dream of Red Mansions; Itô Sohei; translation studies; Chinese-Japanese translation; Chinese classical literatures