Author(s)

Jiayuan Li

Corresponding Author

Jiayuan Li

Abstract

Translation activities are conducted within and thus significantly influenced by certain cultural contexts. Domestication and foreignization are two general strategies to deal with cultural differences during literary translation. As China has developed from a highly closed country to a more opened-up one over the last century or so, the cultural contexts in China have evolved accordingly, and the dominant literary translation strategy in China has consequently been shifted from domestication to foreignization.

Keywords

Cultural context, literary translation in China, domestication, foreignization