On Approaches to dealing with cultural barriers in C-E and E-C literary translation

This paper is a study of the approaches to dealing with cultural barriers in C-E and E-C literary translation. After reviewing the statements by both Chinese and Western Scholars on this question, I arrive at the conclusion that literary translation is influence by culture, and accordingly, literary translation influences the development of certain culture. Cultural barriers are defined as the part of source language culture that the target language reader cannot comprehend. There are two main methods of dealing with source cultural features-retaining them and liberal translation. After many successful and unsuccessful translation examples being explored, four important principles of selecting these methods are summarized.