This research is supported by the Gansu University Faculty Innovation Fund Project “A Study on the English Translation and International Communication of Gansu Red Culture in the Context of the Belt and Road Initiative” (Grant No. 2023A-091).
Published: November 30, 2025
Article history: Updated on June 26, 2026
Abstract
Chinese Red Culture has its intrinsic knowledge system whose concepts play a crucial role in understanding the logic of Chinese modernization and telling China’s stories well. Its international communication, however, has long been trapped in a dual dilemma: varied internal definitions and cognitive external biases. Based on the theoretical principles of Transknowletology initiated by professor Yang Feng, this paper further studies the dynamic process of knowledge-oriented translation beyond literal translation and political advocacy, transforming and conceptualizing “local knowledge” of Red Culture into “global knowledge” by reviewing domestic and international literature, analyzing and learning from typical cases of successful communication practices. And accordingly, the paper puts forward a three-dimensional communication pathway cen-tered on “political discourse dissolution, cultural narrative resonance, and knowledge-system dialogue”, aiming to provide a theoretical framework and some practical references for promoting the effective and sustainable interna-tional communication of Red Culture knowledge as a global public intellectual product
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How to cite this paper
International Communication of Chinese Red Culture from the Perspective of Transknowletology: Paths for Reconceptualization
How to cite this paper: Sheng Chen. (2025). International Communication of Chinese Red Culture from the Perspective of Transknowletology: Paths for Reconceptualization. Translation and Foreign Language Learning, 1(4), 658-663.
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.26855/tfll.2025.11.011