From an Angle to a Filial Daughter: Lin Shu’s Rewriting of Nell in The Old Curiosity Shop

Nell, the protagonist in The Old Curiosity Shop, is an angle but was translated into a filial daughter adhering to Confucian doctrines by Lin Shu late Qing China. translator, reshaped Nell’s appearance, mental activities and behaviors construct role model of piety. Lin’s translation actually rewriting. Such rewriting necessary fulfill his purposes: defuse national crisis introducing beneficial elements from Western culture; re-glorify proving that Westerners upheld same morality as those traditional This paper thus argues translation, means foreign images, vehicle for imagine self-image.