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《中国与好莱坞的相遇》是苏温蒂的一部优秀书籍。该书讲述了中国受好莱坞的影响在影视、科技、书法等方面的不同发展。此次翻译实践选择书中的第五章进行翻译。

本章讲述了中国二十一世纪的武术电影不同发展阶段的特点及其与国际的接轨。首先叙述了中国武术电影的复兴，再具体描述了中国武术电影的三个阶段。在此阶段内，一些电影人通过自己的努力使中国武术电影逐步走向国际舞台。由于社会政策环境的不同，武术电影在不同时期的受欢迎程度也大相径庭。与传统电影相比，新的中国大陆武术电影结合了好莱坞、中国香港及中国台湾的文化特点，成为了文化融合和社会批评的有力武器。

小论文将主要分为四部分，第一部分是引言，主要是对翻译作品的背景知识作介绍；第二部分是简要介绍所选材料的主要内容；第三部分主要阐述翻译过程中遇到的问题及解决的方法；第四部分是结论，此部分是对此次翻译实践的总结与思考。

翻译实践原文

Chapter Five

The resurgence of Chinese martial arts cinema in the first decade of the twenty-first century is a remarkable phenomenon. Neither the genre nor its popularity is new, but its latest resurgence reflects social, political, and global forces with significant implications far beyond the genre's entertainment value and its previous range of filmic expression. These forces include the Chinese state’s cultural policy, the demands of film marketization, the inflow and legacy of Hong Kong's kung fu movies, and the influence of global Hollywood. Intertwined and entangled, they become driving forces and determining factors in the revitalization of this genre in contemporary China.

Historically, Chinese martial arts cinema enjoyed three periods of popularity in the twentieth century: its original emergence in the 1920s; its relocation and revival in Hong Kong from the 1950s to the 1980s, after the Nationalist government’s anti-superstition campaign and ban in 1934; and its resurgence in mainland China in the 1980s as part of the new wave of entertaining cinema. Its resurgence after 2000 in mainland China has been described as moving “closer to its original base in China, signifying a historic closing of the circle”1 This closing of the circle is the focus of this chapter.

From the Bruce Lee period, when oriental kung fu movies debuted on the international film market, to the global presence of action-packed Hong Kong films featuring Jackie Chan, Chow Yun Fat, and Jet Li in the 1990s, Chinese martial arts cinema exerted an increasing influence. However, not until Ang Lee’s Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon won an Oscarand Zhang Yimou's Hero became both a national and an international box office hit did this genre and its global impact begin to attract intense scholarly interest. within the fields of international communication, international cultural studies, and film studies, Chinese martial arts cinema has become a popular research topic. A number of studies have investigated the resurgence of the genre and its implications in an era of globalization. some research has mapped the trajectory of the history of Chinese martial arts cinema.2 other studies are devoted to the genre’s aesthetic connotations and philosophical implications.