Text-less Back Translation from the Perspective of Imagology—A Case Study of On China

The image of China constructed by Henry Kissinger is analyzed from the perspective of imagology, which has both positive and negative or even distorted sides. Some of the latter are unintentional mistakes by Kissinger due to differences in Chinese and Western cultures, but some are deliberate due to his national psychology, social values, and political rights. During the text-less back translation, Hu Liping and other Chinese translators, giving full play to their subjective initiative, adopted methods such as deletion, addition, and adjustment to reconstruct the image of China so that it could pass the review of the publishing house and meet the expectations of Chinese readers. The construction and reconstruction of the image of China in the source text and the target text is explored, which could help the Chinese culture go global

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