ArticleTranslation Theories and Skills http://dx.doi.org/10.26855/tfll.2025.10.008
The Construction of the Chinese Image in the English Translation of From the Soil: The Foundations of Chinese Society from the Perspective of Imagology—A Case Study of the Translation by Gary G. Hamilton and Wang Zheng
Yiyi Cao
Jiangxi University of Water Resources and Electric Power, Nanchang 330013, Jiangxi, China.
*Corresponding author: Yiyi Cao
Published: October 31, 2025
Article history: Updated on June 26, 2026
Abstract
With the deepening of globalization, China has been playing an increasingly important role in the world, and more countries are eager to listen to China’s voice. As a seminal work on the study of Chinese rural society, From the Soil: The Foundations of Chinese Society not only profoundly analyzes the structure of Chinese rural society but also portrays the character of the Chinese people in rural areas as etiquetteabiding, stable, and implicit. Imagology helps people understand the translated image constructed by the version and explore the translation strategies employed in its construction. Within the framework of imagology, this paper analyzes the strategies for constructing the Chinese image in the English translation of From the Soil from the lexical, syntactic, and textual levels, aiming to facilitate overseas readers’ deeper understanding of Chinese society and promote the international shaping of the Chinese image rooted in the nature of Chinese rural society.
Keyword
Imagology; image construction; English translation of From the Soil
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The Construction of the Chinese Image in the English Translation of From the Soil: The Foundations of Chinese Society from the Perspective of Imagology—A Case Study of the Translation by Gary G. Hamilton and Wang Zheng
How to cite this paper: Yiyi Cao. (2025). The Construction of the Chinese Image in the English Translation of From the Soil: The Foundations of Chinese Society from the Perspective of Imagology—A Case Study of the Translation by Gary G. Hamilton and Wang Zheng. Translation and Foreign Language Learning, 1(3), 445-448.
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.26855/tfll.2025.10.008