On the Translation of Children‟s Literature

Abstract

This paper aims at exploring the history of the translation of the children's literature in the four periods, that is, the late Qing Dynasty and the early Republican China, the May Fourth period, the Anti-Japanese War period, and the period after 1976, and finds that each period has its own characteristics in the translations. The paper also studies some strategies that the translators usually adopt and illustrates the accordant merits.