| With the advancement of the "Chinese culture goes global” strategy and the Belt and Road Initiative,the importance of the translation for international communication and "telling China’s story" has been increasingly valued by scholars.The field of translation has achieved remarkable achievements in translating various subjects related to Chinese society,politics,economy,culture,especially traditional Chinese classics and literary works.However,the issue of translating local records,which are carriers of local traditional historical culture,has not received enough attention so far.This study focuses on the English translation of Lin Yueh-hwa ’s annotated version of The Miao-man Peoples of Kweichow.Using the theoretical perspective of thick translation,the study compares and analyzes the English and Chinese texts of The Miao-man Peoples of Kweichow,focusing on the differences between the two versions as well as the paratextual elements such as footnotes,appendices,and author introductions.The study aims to reveal the value of these thick translation strategies in the English translation of local records,and to analyze the quality requirements of translators and their roles positioning in the translation process.The research results show that Lin Yueh-hwa used various thick translation strategies in annotating and translating The Miao-man Peoples of Kweichow.Based on the differences in language and culture,Lin borrowed paratextual information such as author introductions,in-text annotations,footnotes,and appendices to provide deep information supplementation to the original text.These strategies have provided target language readers with more detailed cultural background information,helped them understand the sentence structure and context logic,and created a cognitive environment for more accurate understanding of the original work.Lin Yueh-hwa ’s thick translation strategies in annotating and translating The Miao-man Peoples of Kweichow have important implications for translating local records.Firstly,local records contain rich historical and cultural information with distinctive local characteristics,which requires translators to have both translator and researcher identities.Secondly,when translating local chronicles into English,the translators need to provide deep interpretations of local knowledge.Thirdly,the translators can also use paratextual elements to deepen and supplement the background knowledge of the original text. |
