Author(s)

Zhang Yuan ¹

Affiliation(s)

¹ College of Foreign Languages, Inner Mongolia University of Technology (Imut), Hohhot, Inner Mongolia, 010010, China

Corresponding Author

Zhang Yuan

ABSTRACT

Yi poet Jidi Majia's poetry with a spirit of humanitarianism well reflect the status quo of Yi Traditional Culture and its relationship with the world. Denis Mair as the main English translator of Jidi Majia' poetry fully understand these poems' characteristics and the cultural intension, and gives faithful translations. This paper mainly analyzed the creation background of Jidi Majia's poetry and the features of the translations, further to explore the translation methods to ethnic poetry in contemporary China.

KEYWORDS

Jidi majia, Yi nationality, Poetry, Translation

CITE THIS PAPER

Zhang Yuan, A Study on Jidi Majia's Poetry and Its Translation. Transactions on Comparative Education (2022) Vol. 4: 24-29. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.23977/trance.2022.040204.

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