Researches On The Old Man And The Sea In China

The Old Man and the Sea was published in 1952 and then produced instant sensation. It was translated and released in dozens of languages all over the world and received high praise from the western critics and the reader. After the 1950s, criticism used to become the mainstream for researchers. According to the statistics, document research of The Old Man and the Sea insufficiently accounted for 1/4 of the study on The sun also rises throughout the 1980s. From the 1990s to now, besides Hemingway symposium's devotion to the 40-year criticism of American modern language association and Stoltzfus Ben's paper dissertation ,the American scholar rarely writes the essay on The Old Man and the Sea.The Old Man and the Sea has been introduced to china for more than 50 years. From the scattered reception to the academic exchanges which heat up gradually, the research expands from single perspective to multi-perspectives and deep level. Different groups in china are based on the culture to accept and choose The Old Man and the Sea with Chinese characteristic. This paper tries to do the whole research on the reception of The Old Man and the Sea in China by means of reception theory and Hermeneutics and explores how this novel influences our culture gradually.The paper is divided into three parts besides the introduction and the conclusion.The introduction describes the recent research of The Old Man and the Sea and expounds the purpose of the topic in detail.The first part is mainly on China's translation group and narrates the process of translation about The Old Man and the Sea and chooses three different influential translated versions as research.. so far, Chinese versions of The Old Man and the Sea has reached more than 20. In comparison with the continuous emergence of translated version, the study on only four versions seems to be weak. In this part, I focus on translation research on three influential versions from Zhang Ailing, Wu LO, Huang Yuanshen.The second part are mainly on the critics group and their comment on the academic research of the old and the sea ; in the late 1970s and the early 1980s , the view and focus of critics had shifted from single perspective to multi-perspectives along with unceasing academic exchanges. In this part, I analyze the change of Angle of Criticism on The Old Man and the Sea presented by the critics from the end of 1970s and explore the existing problems.The third part is mainly Chinese writer and reviews the effect of The Old Man and the Sea on the contemporary literature. The influence of the foreign literature was presented in the works of Chinese writers and this part elaborates how to affect the Chinese literature works in two case studies such as the Charming Sea and Years, Months, Days.The conclusion is the summary and the introspection of the paper.