The Translation and Dissemination of Yue Opera in the Context of “introducing the Chinese Culture Abroad”
Year: 2025
Type: article
Abstract: The General Office of the State Council issued the “Several Policies on Supporting the Inheritance and Development of Chinese Opera”, emphasizing that Chinese opera is “an important carrier for the expression and inheritance of excellent traditional Chinese culture”, and clearly pointed out that it is necessary to “carry forward the excellent traditional Chinese culture” and “better play the unique role of Chinese opera art in building the spiritual home of the Chinese nation”. The emphasis and support of the policy discourse on opera laid the cornerstone for the development of opera in this period, especially the creation and development of state-owned opera troupes, and also made the creation of opera in this period present specific characteristics of the times. Yue Opera is the second largest opera genre in China. It is the first batch of national intangible cultural heritage lists. In the process of innovation and transformation of Yue Opera cultural resources, there are problems such as shrinking consumer market, lack of inheritance talents, and poor adaptability to the new communication environment, which leads to the dilemma of lack of cultural capital accumulation in the process of innovation and development of Yue Opera culture. Through translation studies, this paper analyzes the dilemma and solutions of the spread of Yue Opera overseas. From those aspects of translation subjects, the content of translation, translation approaches, translation audience, translation effect, translation strategy to analyse the dilemma. We can adopt the cultural adaptation translation as strategy to introduce Yue Opera abroad.
DOI: 10.61784/jlces3013
Author: YueLin Shen
Institution: Southwest University of Science and Technology
Language: English
Subfield: Language and Linguistics
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: hybrid
OpenAlex ID: W4409950351