Study on Cross-Cultural Adaptation Strategies for the Foreign Translation of Chinese Culture-Loaded Words from the Perspective of Eco-Translatology

Abstract

 Chinese culture-loaded words are core linguistic carriers that embody China’s historical traditions, values, national sentiments and cultural connotations. Their translation for international communication is a key part of cross-cultural transmission, and also an important support for the “going global” of Chinese culture and the construction of China’s discourse system. However, due to fundamental differences between Chinese and Western cultural contexts, modes of thinking and linguistic systems, the translation of Chinese culture-loaded words often encounters dilemmas such as cultural default, semantic misreading and ineffective communication, which urgently needs guidance from scientific translation theories and adaptive strategies. Taking Eco-Translatology established by Professor Hu Gengshen as the core theoretical framework and the “three-dimensional adaptive selection and transformation” theory as the analytical tool, this study focuses on the cross-cultural adaptation in the translation of Chinese culture-loaded words in the governance of China IV, and systematically discusses the adaptive selection strategies in the linguistic, cultural and communicative dimensions with specific corpus.