Censorship in translation: The case of the People’s Republic of China
Censorship in translation: The case of the People’s Republic of China
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翻译审查：中华人民共和国的案例
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2015
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Zaixi Tan
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Zaixi Tan
本文研究了中国的审查制度和翻译，重点关注审查制度作为一种对信息和思想流通进行制度控制（例如政府、社论、出版商）的形式，如何规范该国的翻译活动。它涵盖了60多年的时间，分为三个时期：（1）中华人民共和国成立到文化大革命（1949年至1966年），在此期间对外国文学翻译和进口的审查很大程度上暴露了前苏联的影响； （2）文化大革命（1966-1976），期间极左政治和意识形态审查非常严厉，任何外来的翻译都被严格禁止； （3）从1976年至今，该国首先经历了对外国文学传入的严格限制逐渐放松的时期，然后是更加宽松的立场，但最近又加强了对互联网上传播的信息的管制。本文的目的是探讨中国翻译审查制度的根本因素以及可能影响翻译审查制度变化或不变特征的因素；并通过中国的案例，深入探讨翻译审查制度的研究如何有助于我们在更广泛的背景下理解翻译的文化政治。
This article studies censorship and translation in the PRC, focusing on how censorship, as a form of institutional (e.g. government, editorial, publishers’) control of the circulation of information and ideas, regulates the activity of translation in the country. It covers 60-odd years sub-divided into three periods: (1) the founding of the PRC to the Cultural Revolution (1949–1966), during which censorship in the translation and importation of foreign literature largely revealed a former Soviet Union influence; (2) the Cultural Revolution (1966–1976), during which ultra-leftist political and ideological censorship was so severe that the translation of anything alien was strictly forbidden; and (3) the period from 1976 to the present day, during which time the country first experienced a gradual loosening of severe restrictions and then a more relaxed position on incoming foreign literature which, however, was accompanied more recently with re-enforced regulations of information circulated on the internet. The purpose of the paper is to explore the underlying factors for translational censorship in China and the factors that may have affected the changing or non-changing character of translational censorship; and, through the case of the PRC, to throw insights on how the study of translational censorship may contribute to our understanding of the cultural politics of translation in a broader context.