The Implications of Hawkes's The Story of the Stone to Translation Theorists

摘要

Many translation critics have com-mented on The Story of the Stone,DavidHawkes’s translation of the Chineseclassical novel《红楼梦》written by CaoXueqin two centuries ago.Some of thesecomments are favourable.For instance,Jin Di and Nida(1984:95—98)and JinDi(1989:7)cite passages from it as exam-ples to illustrate functional equivalence orthe artistry of translating,and Lin Yiliang(1976:118—119)remarks that