Travel writing that transcends cultural boundaries often engages with the depiction of regional culinary cultures, thereby offering a unique lens through which to examine the representation of Other's foodways and the traveller's transformation. Drawing upon the metaphorical concept of translation as a form of crossing, this paper employs a tripartite analytical framework - interlingual translation, cultural translation, and self translation - to scrutinise Shark's Fin and Sichuan Pepper, a gastrotourism text set in China by Fuchsia Dunlop. Taking food as a semiotic system, this study aims to explore how Dunlop's cultural identity is captured in her self translation and how the identity is reflected in her interlingual and cultural translation of Chinese food. It reveals that Dunlop transforms from an outsider to an insider of Chinese food, and repositions herself as a different insider who values traditional Chinese foodways. This evolving identity is mirrored in her use of the host language (Chinese) for translating culinary expressions, and in her strategies of de-stigmatising and historicising Chinese culinary practices within cultural translation. Dunlop's narrative underscores a positive attitude towards translation, highlighting its gains for both the source culture and the cultural translator.

Robert Henricks’ Lao Tzu’s Tao Te Ching: A Translation of the Startling New Documents Found at Guodian marks a milestone in Daoist studies and translation history as the first complete English translation of the Guodian Laozi. However, systematic research on Henricks’ version remains limited, particularly regarding its philological foundation and translation strategies. Drawing on the concept of representation, this paper addresses the gap through a descriptive case study of Henricks’ work. By examining Henricks’ philological readings of dating, authorship, chapter divisions, textual variants, and philosophical thoughts, the study shows how he reconstructs and represents Daoist knowledge embedded in the Guodian Laozi. The findings suggest that Henricks, as both a translator and researcher, integrates rigorous philological studies with extensive paratexts, producing a version that both faithfully represents the text and offers new insights into its formation and philosophy. His translation has demonstrated the necessity of philological approaches for rendering Daoist and other ancient Chinese classics.

Travel writing narrates travellers' psychological development through mediation in the complex interplay between otherness and identity. Based on the notion that translation embraces personal experience and active transformation of the self through text, this paper manifests travel writing as a translation of the self of the traveller/writer. It aims to investigate intercultural mediation in the traveller's translation of the self via a case study, Shark's Fin and Sichuan Pepper: A Sweet-Sour Memoir of Eating in China, a travel writing classic by Fuchsia Dunlop. We first explore Dunlop's intercultural mediation by drawing on the concept of acculturation, focusing on her stresses and strategy in acculturation and intercultural adaptation throughout her translation of the self. We then review her ethic of difference in intercultural mediation. Dunlop adopts the integration strategy through intercultural contact. Her attitude towards Chinese culinary culture changes from an unconscious core belief in ethnocentrism to an acknowledgement of ethnorelativity, finally achieving an intercultural adaptation. Dunlop's memoir provides an opportunity to look at a broadening concept of translation, which is to examine the translation of the self in an intercultural context, particularly changes in translators' attitudes towards cultural difference: ignore it or open up to it.

本文通过考察残雪小说馆藏分布情况,分析专业读者和普通读者评论,对其在英语世界的传播与接受情况进行实证研究.研究发现,残雪小说在英语世界的传播与接受良好,但尚不尽如人意,影响力仍较有限:一是传播范围主要集中在美国;二是受众以专业读者为主.此外,在残雪的 10 部小说英译单行本中,《五香街》和《最后的情人》的译介效果最为突出.基于此,本文进而为中国文学外译提供些许启示,如加强译介效果实证研究、加强出版合作、加强目标受众培养以及加强多元主体参与等.

本文拟以译者行为批评理论为依托,从译者身份的角度对比分析沙博理和王际真英译《家》的译者行为,阐明不同的译者身份对其译者行为的影响.研究发现,沙博理的制度化译者身份和王际真的市场化译者身份在译本选择和译本表达等方面呈现出不同的译者行为痕迹.在译本选择上,沙博理属于"任务指派型",表现为全选原文本的求真行为,而王际真偏向"自主选择型",侧重节选原文本的务实行为;在译本表达上,沙博理更多表现为政治务实下的求真行为,而王际真则倾向于以求真为本的市场务实行为.

Bassnett, Susan, ed. (2018): Translation and World Literature. London/New York: Routledge, 202 p.. An article from journal Meta (New Contexts in Discourse Analysis for Translation and Interpretation), on Érudit.

ABSTRACT This paper presents an overview of translation criticism (TC) based on a bibliometric analysis of data in the online Bibliography in Interpreting and Translation (BITRA). The analysis focuses on, among other issues, the evolution of research output, publication types, authors and themes. Results suggest that TC research experienced an overall trend of growth from the 1940s to the 2010s, mainly in the form of journal articles and book chapters. It has attracted greater attention from young scholars during the past two decades. Meanwhile, publications, spearheaded by researchers with continuing interests in this field and some very active and productive journals, have a wide distribution of publication outlets and authors. Additionally, this research identifies some popular topics, such as quality assessment models and methods, reviews, evaluations, text-based linguistic analysis, poetry and novels. Also, it reveals that in the database, case studies are widely applied, and scholars' attention has gradually shifted from linguistic to extra-linguistic factors. Overall, the field is still relatively underresearched in the translation studies (TS) community with some potentially underexplored areas. Thus implications for future research, such as strengthening collaboration, intensifying research in online reviewing/criticism, enhancing corpus-based research, and research from cultural and sociological perspectives, are proposed.