AComparaiveSudyofheTwoChineseVersionsofTheKieRunner_开题报告

As the first novel written by Hosseini, The Kite Runner became a bestseller after being printed in paperback and was popularized in book clubs. And it has topped on New York Times bestseller for over two years. With its popularity in the world, some studies on The Kite Runner have been carried out from several perspectives. In the following part, the author has reviewed some studies on the origin text and the target texts.

With the popularity of the ‘kite’ in the world researches on the novel of The Kite Runner abroad at home have emerged accordingly. In general, most researches are conducted from literary perspective and fall into the following two aspects. First, the studies focus on the cultural context such as racial, cultural and religious conflicts in Afghanistan. Miki Flockemann (2008) studies the complicit refugee and cosmopolitans in “Complicit Refugee, Cosmopolitans: Khaled Hosseini’s The Kite Runner and Romesh Gunesekera’s ‘Reef’ in Conversation with Texts on Xenophobia in South Africa”. In the article “Epic Poetry and ‘The Kite Runner’: Paradigm of Cultural Identity in Fiction and Afghan Society”, Shafig Shamel (2007) tries to study the cultural identity. Second, some researches focus on the moral and psychology aspects.

Originally published in English, The Kite Runner wins a great success in the United States. And then it is also widely acknowledged in the world via translations. Up to now, the novel has been translated into 42 languages for publication in 38 countries（regions）, among which two Chinese versions included. One version is the traditional Chinese Zhui Feng Zheng De Hai Zi (追风筝的孩子) translated by Li Jingyi from Taiwan in 2005 and published by Muma Culture Publishing Co. Ltd., the other one is the simplified Chinese Zhui Feng Zheng De Ren (追风筝的人) translated by Li Jihong from the mainland of China in 2006 and published by Shanghai People’ s Publishing House. Both of them have been received success in their book markets. 

With the booming popularity of the novel in China, many scholars start to concentrate on the translation of The Kite Runner. Lin Aihua (2008) com pares two Chinese versions of The Kite Runner from the perspective of Andre Lefevere’s rewriting theory. In the article of On Li Jihong’s Translation of The Kite Runner from the Perspective of Nida’s Functional Equivalence (2011), Zhao Baoying analyzes how the translator achieves functional equivalence in the process of translation to make the version successful. By analyzing Li Jihong’s Chinese version of The Kite Runner, Ouyang Tao (2011) explores the inter-subjective relationships in the actual process of translation. Wan Yan (2013) makes a comparative analysis of the functions of translation norms of the two Chinese versions in her thesis of A Study on Two Versions of The Kite Runner from the Perspective of Toury’s Norms Theory. In the thesis of A Comparative Study of Two Chinese Versions of The Kite Runner from the Perspective of Manipulation Theory (2015), Luo Guolin proves that translator, to some extent, is effected and manipulated by ideology, poetic and sponsor in the process of their translations. Although there are several systematic researches on the translation of The Kite Runner, the comparative research on the two Chinese versions is still insufficient. Therefore, more researches on its translations of the two Chinese versions are needed to be done to provide guidance on the practice of translation. The present author attempts to analyze how the two translators make adaptation and selection in the translation process to win success in the book market from the perspective of ATAS.

二、^范文提纲

1. Introduction

2.Theoretical analysis

2.1 Previous Studies on Translator’s Adaptation and Selection

2.2 Previous Studies on The Kite Runner

2.3 Brief Introduction of the two Chinese versions

2.4 Translation Principles and Evaluation Criteria

3. Data Analysis

3.1 Analysis of the Two Chinese Versions of The Kite Runner

3.2 Translators’ Adaptation in the Pre-translating Stage

3.3 Political Level

3.4 Religious Level

3.5 Customs Level

4. Results and Suggestions

45.1 Results

4.2 Suggestions

5 Conclusion

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