Abstract:

As Chinese literature is becoming increasingly disseminated across the world, the translators’ cultural outlook and translation perspectives have attracted the attention of academia. As can clearly be seen, the cultural outlook determines the value orientation of the translated work, while the translation perspective shapes its aesthetic style. The King of Chess, a translated work by the Australian sinologist and translator Bonnie S. McDougall, not only takes the orientation of the Chinese culture as its unique cultural stance into account, but is also faithful to the source language and its graceful diction. With a focus on the strategies and skills that McDougall adopted in her translation, the present paper is a tentative attempt to analyze how the translator accomplished her “cultural root-seeking” and “aesthetic transplantation” journey of translation using a number of examples, as well as to explore the practical significance it can provide for Chinese literature in its “going global” to the outside.

Keywords: Bonnie S. McDougall; Ah Cheng; The King of Chess; cultural root-seeking; aesthetic transplantation

摘要：

在中国文学不断走向世界的当下，译者的文化翻译观成为译学研究中的重要议题。文化观决定译作的价值取向，而翻译观则塑造译作的审美风格。澳大利亚汉学家杜博妮在翻译阿城的《棋王》一书时，不仅在文化站位上独树一帜，以中国文化为中心，展现了其与时俱进的文化翻译理念，而且十分注重原本和译本之间美学价值的高度契合。本文通过大量例证分析，探究了杜博妮如何以自身的文化翻译观为指针，圆满地完成了中国文学外译的“文化寻根”和“审美迁徙”之旅，以期为当下中国文学“走出去”提供分析实例和学理借鉴。

关键词: 杜博妮, 阿城, 棋王, 文化寻根, 审美迁徙