Dish name translation in literary texts is worth studying; it’s different
from restaurant menu translation. This article differentiates the two translations
by Yang & Yang and Hawkes through studying on the translation of dish names
in Hong Lou Meng and puts forward three
principles and three suggestions from the linguistic level and cultural level, respectively.
Cite this paper
Peng, A. (2015). Translating Dish Names: Food Cultural Representation in Hong Lou Meng. Open Access Library Journal, 2, e1316. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.4236/oalib.1101316.
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