Zeng Qing; Hu Fang-yi;

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In recent years attention has been increasingly paid to translation ethics, which affects the motivation and practice of translation. In this study, the translation ethics in a few English versions of Mao Zedong’s poems was analyzed. It was found that flexible strategies were adopted to translate the numerals and allusions, which are characteristics of Mao’s poems. From the perspective of translation ethics, fidelity to the original work, serving the readers of the translation language, and intercultural communication were successfully fulfilled.

Key Words： Translation ethics; Mao Zedong’s poems; poem translation

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Foundation: This research is a joint project of the Hunan Provincial Social Science Fund’s foreign language research project “Research on the Construction and Application of Multi-modal Bilingual Corpus of Mao Zedong’s Poems in Chinese and English” (No. 22WLH32) and the Hunan Provincial Philosophy and Social Science Fund Project “Multi-modal Mao Zedong’s Poems and Culture” Phased results of "Research on Dynamic Translation and Communication" (No. 21JD058).

Author: Zeng Qing; Hu Fang-yi;

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