A Report On The Translation Of An Illustrated Book To Ningxia Hui Culture (Excerpts)

As the only provincial Hui autonomous region, Ningxia has a special and distinctive Hui culture. Good translated versions can help Hui culture to go towards the world. But now, there are few English versions about a comprehensive and systematical introduction to Hui culture. For the spread of Chinese Hui culture, the research group, which the author of this report belongs to, chose one of the representative works, An Illustrated Book to Ningxia Hui Culture, from a local research scholar and translated it into English. Then, the author of this report will analyze and summarize the translation difficulties and put forward the solutions in the form of translation practice report to provide reference and experience to the translation of this kind of text in the future.Firstly, this report introduces the translation project of An Illustrated Book to Ningxia Hui Culture and then describes the translation process. Next, the author analyzes and discusses the translation cases in An Illustrated Book to Ningxia Hui Culture. Aiming at the translation of Hui food names and Hui folk songs, the author chose such appropriate translation methods as literal translation, free translation, transliteration and annotation, addition to deal with. At last, the author concludes the lessons learned from the translation, summarizes the problems in this translation practice and talks about the related deficiencies.