A Comparative Study on the English Translation of The Travel Dairies of Xu Xiake from the Perspective of Eco-translatology

Chinese classics are one of the representatives of traditional Chinese culture, and translating excellent classics is a way to inherit and spread brilliant Chinese culture. The Travel Dairies of Xu Xiake is of great value, and its two latest English translations, namely The Travels of Xu Xiake translated by Lu Changhuai and Jia Xiuhai and The Travel Dairies of Xu Xiake by Li Weirong et al. (i.e. the version of “Library of Chinese Classics”), are selected. The two translations of its first diary entitled “A Visit to the Tiantai Mountain” and “Tiantai SHAN” respectively are selected as main research objects. Based on the three-dimensional transformations of eco-translatology, the two translations are compared and analyzed in linguistic, cultural and communicative dimensions, and the reasons why the latter is superior to the former are concluded in hopes of providing certain references for the translation of similar Chinese classics, helping more Chinese classics enter the world, and further promoting the improvement of Chinese cultural soft power.