Survival Plight And Strategy Of China’s Fansub Group

Fansub group refers to the fans group who makes subtitles for the foreign video works.They dedicate their time and labor free of charge for translate the foreign video subtitles files to national language through the Internet voluntarily.China’s fansub group born in the early 21st century, with its foreign language skills and computer technology, and with the spirit of the Internet, to help Chinese audiences get across languages and cultures borders, and many other obstacles, and become "cross-border audience. "They also won the broad influence and appeal with its audience, and lead a domestic foreign TV drama boom to the chinese audience. China’s fansub group itself is in a gray area in the law, so the majority of them survival quietly and cecretly in last ten years, but never get out of the historical stage, there are many deeply reasons.China’s cultural market is geting more and more open, the number of authorized overseas television culture products sharply increased up.Whether in legal or policy environment, chinese fansub group living environment is going to be more severe than a few years ago.But the system of content examination for television and cultural products, as well as the comparatively poor quality of national cultural products, chinese audiences’ demand for overseas cultural products will not be stagnanted,so the china’s fansub group will not disappear recently.Thus correctly guiding and utilizeing the fansub groups’ intellectual resources and dissemination experience is helpful for wheather chinese audience or the government.