Abstract

Traditional Chinese Medicine is forever a splendid pearl of Chinese nation as the great cultural heritage. It also belongs to all mankind as valuable resources. With accelerating development process of China's reform and opening up, China are increasingly close with other countries, which has aroused the attention of the whole world. WHO also spares no effort to promote traditional Chinese medicine in the world. In the situation, the translation of traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) is becoming more and more important. How to convey TCM terminology accurately and to let scholars understand them exactly has become an important task in translation and cultural communities.

There are frictions between Chinese and English and there is considerable difference between Medical Ancient Chinese Prose and modern English. Thus although the English translation of traditional Chinese medicine has a long history, there are still serious misinterpretations: non-uniform translation standards as well as the lack of theory and some other issues. The thesis will discuss English translation of traditional Chinese medicine based on previous remarkable achievements, try to analyze the translation principles, norms and ways from the culture perspective, and solve the translation difficulties based on the culture turn.

 Keywords: traditional Chinese medicine; translation principles; culture turn

Contents

Abstract

摘要

1 Introduction-2

2 Traditional Chinese Medicine and Cultural Factors in TCM-3

2.1 Traditional Chinese Medicine-3

2.2 Cultural Factors in TCM-4

2.3 Culture Turn in Translation Studies-5

3 Literature Review-6

3.1 History of TCM Translation-6

3.2 Achievement of TCM Translation-10

3.3 Existing Problems of TCM English Translation-11

3.4 Principles of TCM Translation-12

4 Culture Turn in Methods of TCM English Translation-13

4.1 Literature Translation-13

4.2 Free Translation-14

4.3 Transliteration-15

5 Conclusion-16

References-17