A Study on Translation of Chinese Children’s Literature from the Perspective of Polysystem Theory

Polysystem Theory was developed in 1970s by Israeli scholar Itamar Even-Zohar borrowing ideas from the Russian Formalist of 1920s(Munday, 2001: 109). Although building on work Formalist, reacts against ‘the fallacies traditional aesthetic approach’(Even-Zohar 2002: 4), which had focus ‘high’ literature and disregarded as unimportant literary systems or genres such children’s literature, thrillers whole system translated literature. We put translation general circumstance social culture find that is margin system. This causes a lot constraints obstructions writing translating for paper explores how were influenced cultural environment. author conducted development Chinese into 3 period analyze improved different eras perspective polysystem theory.