An Eco-Translatological Study on the C-E Translation of Culture-Loaded Words in the Chinese Animated Film Monkey King: Hero Is Back

In the context of globalization and Chinese culture’s “Going Abroad” strategy, film plays an increasingly important role in cultural communication and in enhancing the soft power of Chinese national culture. Chinese animated films have developed vigorously in recent years. They rely on Chinese myths and classic novels, which favor the diffusion of Chinese culture. There is a load of Chinese elements in Chinese animation films, which contain a wealth of traditional art, aesthetic concepts, philosophies, ethics, and a great quantity of culture-loaded words. Monkey King: Hero Is Back, is a successful representative of Chinese animation films going abroad. As a new theory in recent years, Eco-Translatology is of great practical significance to correctly convey the culture in Chinese animated films. Under the guidance of Eco-Translatology and from the perspective of “three-dimensional” (language dimension, cultural dimension, and communicative dimension) transformation, this paper analyzes the subtitle translation of culture-loaded words in the film, aiming to summarize the effective and high-quality translation methods.

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