Translation Analysis Of The Culture-specific Words In The Subtitle Of The Curse Of Golden Flower

China's booming film industry creates the need to communication with people of various cultural backgrounds. Chinese-English translation of subtitle has become an increasingly important medium for the outside world to know China. As a new field of translation, study of film subtitle translation is attracting more and more attention. The past research mainly focused on time and space constraints, its relevance to multimedia translation, quality control and standardizations. This thesis attempts to analyze, from the cultural perspective, factors influencing strategies adopted in subtitle translation.Culture is closely related to language and language is the carrier of culture. How to translate culture-specific words and expressions in the subtitle translation has been a crucial issue concerned by subtitler.On the basis of its precedents the author of this thesis tries to study the translation of culture-specific words in the context of the culture differences, linguistic features and translation strategies and find out some applicable approaches to handle these kinds of words by exploring the translations strategies of the culture-specific words in the subtitle of the film"the Curse of Golden Flower", directed by Zhang Yimou. This thesis attempts to contrast the culture-specific words in English and Chinese with the contrastive approach. At the same time, the author tries to probe into its appliance in translation. And since in essence, translation is an important device in intercultural communication, the translator can by no means neglect the cultural information embodied in messages.