A Study Of The Romance Of The West Chamber In The English World

The dramatist Wang shifu's The Romance of the Western Chamber in the yuan dynasty has always been concerned by scholars for its positive and progressive content and exquisite form.The romance of the western chamber is not only well known in China,but also widely spread abroad.Relying on its progressive ideological content and perfect artistic value,The Romance of the Western Chamber has already crossed the national boundaries and become a fine art treasure house in the world.Its great artistic charm has also won wide attention from people all over the world.Wang shifu's Western Chamberis from Yuan zhen's Yingying biography(a true story of the meeting "),Dong jieyuan's Western Chamber of Zhongren Tune development,foreign scholars on the three of the research are very important.The dissemination of The Romance of The Western Chamber has gone through a long process.The author hopes to reproduce the complete picture of the dissemination and reception of The Romance of the Western Chamber in the UK and the USA,including the demonstration of the researchers,the translation,the publication and the reception of the readers.The author hopes to make an overall outline of the translation and introduction of the romance of the western chamber in the UK and the USA through the statistics and comparison of the research data of The Romance of the Western Chamber.On the basis of summarizing and analyzing the literature,the author draws some conclusions about the study of The Romance of the Western Chamber in Britain and America,and clearly Outlines the spread and acceptance of the romance of the western chamber in Britain and America.At the same time,this paper compares the content of the translation of The Romance of the West Chamber with the original text,and points out the emphases of the translation and the western translators' understanding of The Romance of the West Chamber.At last,the author sums up the views discussed above.This paper will be discussed from the following aspects.The first chapter reviews the spread and research of The Romance of the Western Chamber in Britain and America.British and American missionaries came to China,and Chinese scholars emigrated overseas.In the process of communication between China and British and American cultures,the story of The Romance of the Western Chamber appeared in the outline introduction,selected translation,full translation,English journals,etc.Due to the differences in cultural traditions,the dissemination of the romance of the western chamber in Britain and America is not as extensive as that in other Asian countries.However,after decades of development,British and American sinologists came from behind,and their research results have certain theoretical value and reference value.The second chapter takes the English version of The Romance of the Western Chamber as the research object,and analyzes the content of the translated version from the perspective of translation comparison.Based on the relevant research works,their research content and perspective are analyzed.British and American scholars attach great importance to the interpretation of the text.On this basis,they analyze the content and structure of The Romance of the Western Chamber,interpret it from their cultural perspective,and put forward some new insights.Chapter three studies the understanding and acceptance of the book from the perspective of illustrations in the translation.Among them,Stephen H.West and WiltL.Idema two famous sinologists,have unique views on illustrations.There is even a separate appendix on illustrations at the back of the translation.This chapter intends to study The Romance of the Western Chamber from the perspective of illustration,which is the enrichment and expansion of the translation study.And based on the text,increase the research of this paper itself.In general,the study of The romance of the Western Chamber in the English world has expanded the literary aesthetics and cultural and artistic tension of The Romance of the Western Chamber with its rich and varied and original research contents and research methods of perspectives,which is a suppleme.