Orientalism In Eileen Chang’s Self-translation Of Shame, Amah！

Due to her unique and excellent talents, Eileen Chang has gained greatreputation in the field of literature. Comparatively, her achievements in translation donot attract due attention until recent years, not to mention studies on herself-translation. So far, researches on her translation either attach importance onsystemizing her translation achievements, or analyze her translation works from theperspective of female translation theory, rewriting theory or the concept of ideology,and hence neglecting Orientalism in her translation. Besides, most of the studies onEileen Chang’s translation works attach great importance to her famous works,including The Golden Cangue, The Rouge of the North, and The Naked Earth, whileworks like Shame, Amah! have been long neglected. This thesis makes attempts toemploy Orientalism theory to translation practice, in order to enhance studies ofEileen Chang’s self-translation.This paper takes the self-translation of Shame, Amah! as a case study, makingattempts in studying her self-translation from the perspective of Said’s Orientalismtheory. Based on text analysis and research, the author probes into Eileen Chang’stranslation strategies in dealing with her original work and discussing how sheeliminates the anti-orientalism of the original and endows the translation withorientalism, to cater to the superiority of the western culture and the designedimpression on the Orient.Therefore, the author comes to the conclusion that most writers, in the processof translation, aiming at entering the main stream of English literature, employfeatures of Orientalism to the originals, just the same with how Eileen Changsubverts the original of Shame, Amah! which is with lots of anti-orientalism features.