Translating the Culture-Specific Items in Chinese Tourism Publicity Materials into English: A Category-based Functional Approach

With the full implementation of policy “Chinese Culture Going Global”, more attention has been paid to English translation Chinese tourism publicity materials. One major challenges that translators face is a large number culture-specific items (CSIs) contained in There some discussion about Chinese-English CSIs However previous studies are largely inadequate and unsystematic. In this paper, category-based functional approach taken address issue systematically. It features tripartite categorization materials Nanjing Confucius Temple detailed analysis their specific textual functions. Two general principles three concrete methods proposed improve further quality translating