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AN Wen-cai, GAO Wen-cheng
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DOI:10.17265/2159-5836/2025.11.006
University of Shanghai for Science and Technology, Shanghai, China University of Shanghai for Science and Technology, Shanghai, China
Chinese food culture boasts a long history and rich connotations. As an important window for disseminating Chinese food culture, A Bite of China’s English translation plays a crucial role in the international spread of culture. Culture-loaded words concerning food carry profound cultural heritages, posing numerous challenges to translation. This study takes Eco-Translatology as the theoretical framework, and adopts the case-study method to explore English translation of such words. It selects a large number of translation cases of culture-loaded words related to food from the English version of A Bite of China and deeply analyzes them. This study demonstrates that Eco-Translatology has significant guiding value for the English translation of culture-loaded food words in A Bite of China. Its multi-dimensional transformation strategies contribute to improving translation quality, providing practical references for the translation of Chinese food culture into foreign languages, and playing a positive role in promoting food culture exchange.
Eco-Translatology, A Bite of China, culture-loaded words concerning food, English translation strategies
Journal of Literature and Art Studies, November 2025, Vol. 15, No. 11, 842-845
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