A Translation Report On Chinese History In Economic Perspective(Excerpts) Under The Guidance Of Newmark’s Semantic And Communicative Translation Theory

Economic development is the basic element of social progress and the enhancement of national status.Looking at the development route of China’s economy,coastal port cities are the first to develop.Whether it is economy,transportation,population size,or foreign trade,they are all at the forefront of the times.Chinese History in Economic Perspective is written by Thomas G.Rawski in English,and the author is a professor of economics and history at the University of Pittsburgh.Chinese History in Economic Perspective is a combination of expressive text and informational text,emphasizing the thoughts and historical phenomena of China’s economy and society.When selecting the translation text,the translator chooses the text Ningbo local economy as an example.One is that Ningbo,as a coastal city,has an extremely strong economic development.Second,in the early stage of China’s economic development,women accounted for a large part of Ningbo’s labor force.For a long period of time,female workers in Ningbo have made undeniable contributions to the local economic and social development,which are of great social significance.This report summarizes the translation process from three aspects: lexical translation,syntactic translation and discourse translation.At the same time,the translator uses annotation,reorganization,division and reference to translate the key words,sentences and texts contained in the book to achieve accurate information transmission,so that readers can understand the economic model and history phenomenon as much as possible.On the one hand,the practice report shows the specific application of Newmark’s translation theory in translated text.The translator combines semantic and communicative translation theory and applies them flexibly.And under the theoretical guidance,appropriate translation techniques are adopted to translate the text.On the other hand,this report can provide some ideas and references for Chinese historical research and Ningbo regional economic research,so that China’s development history will be known by more people.