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Gender in Literary Translation

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This chapter will first introduce the methodological basis. That the theories that the study is based upon, as elaborated in the previous chapter, require crucial attention to the linkage between actual linguistic features and wider social context and to interpretation of the textual as against the social and historical entails a combination of microscopic and macroscopic analysis approach.

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    Named after the renowned Chinese writer Mr. Mao Dun, the prize was set up in 1981 to honor the most excellent Chinese novels every four years and became the most influential awards for literature in mainland China till today.

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    It is a term from the field of history of Chinese literature which refers to a literary phenomenon that was informed and influenced by the Chinese economic reform that started in the late 1970s in mainland China. The economic reform was aimed to change the structure of a centrally planned economy by gradually introducing and incorporating the mechanism of market economy so as to establish a socialist market economy. It was against this backdrop that a group of literary works were created in which the writers highlighted the disadvantages with the old economic system and the necessity of a reform.

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Meng, L. (2019). Methodology. In: Gender in Literary Translation. Corpora and Intercultural Studies, vol 3. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-3720-8_4

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