Volume 8,Issue 9
Research on C-E Translation Strategies in the White Paper Carbon Peaking and Carbon Neutrality China’s Plans and Solutions from the Perspective of Eco-Translatology
Climate change has received growing global attention, and addressing it increasingly requires cross-border cooperation. China has issued Carbon Peaking and Carbon Neutrality China’s Plans and Solutions, an authoritative white paper presenting China’s climate governance philosophies, practices, and outcomes. Its English translation plays an important role in communicating China’s climate initiatives and supporting international understanding. At the same time, the text contains many China-specific expressions, including policy terminology, four-character phrases, technical clusters, and culturally embedded concepts, which create particular difficulties in translation. Drawing on Hu Gengshen’s Eco-translatology, this paper examines the translational eco-environment of the White Paper, identifies major linguistic and cultural difficulties, and discusses the strategies used in rendering climate policy discourse into English. Particular attention is given to linguistic, cultural, and communicative adaptation, together with lexical, syntactic, cultural-image, and discourse-level selection. The analysis shows that the official English version frequently restructures Chinese sentence patterns, makes compressed policy relations more explicit, and adjusts culturally specific images according to their communicative function.
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