Project Report On Translation Of North Zhuang Opera Zhu Maichen

This thesis is a Chinese to English translation project report based on a North Zhuang Opera entitled Zhu Maichen. The Foreign Languages College of Guangxi University and the Foreign Languages Department of Baise College are jointly establishing a key research base of humanities and social sciences of Guangxi, and the north Zhuang Opera translation project, including Zhu Maichen, is one construction item of the base. Translating North Zhuang Opera into English aims at introducing Zhuang Opera and Zhuang culture to the world, enhancing ethnic culture innovation and cultural exchange with foreign countries, promoting the export of cultural products and services, as well as improving and developing the humanities and social sciences construction. This translation report focuses on analyzing the translation process of Zhu Maichen. This opera is derived from a story of the Western Han Dynasty. It tells the story of a scholar who went through hardships and finally won official rank and happiness. The script contains four versions, i.e. folk script, Zhuang script, literally translated Chinese and liberally translated Chinese script respectively. And the project requirement is translating the last version into English.This translation project is a C-E script translation one, involving content about traditional Chinese Zhuang culture. This report will analyze the translation process in detail in terms of text analysis, preparation, strategy selection, case studies, translation conclusion, etc. The speech and songs analysis, encountered problems in translation and corresponding solutions will be emphasized. And following are corresponding translation strategies, techniques, and ending summary, which includes the results, problems and shortcomings in the translation process. Hoping this report can provide a little valuable reference for further North Zhuang Opera translation.