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A Comparative Study of Two Chinese Versions of Gone with the Wind from a Social-Cultural Perspective 　　1 Binzhou Medical University, Yantai, 264003, China. 　　*Corresponding author. 　　 　　Received 22 January 2012; accepted 6 April 2012. 　　ZHAO Baohe (2012). A Comparative Study of Two Chinese Versions of Gone with the Wind from a Social-Cultural Perspective. Studies in Literature and Language, 4(2), -0. Available from URL: /index.php/sll/article/view/j.sll.1923156320120402.3366 　　DOI: /10.3968/j.sll.1923156320120402.3366 　　Introduction 　　Translation Studies has developed by leaps and bounds and taken the cultural turn since the late 1970s in the West. It has been realized that translation doesn’t take place in a vacuum by more and more scholars who have begun to analyze translation from cultural perspectives. Now, more attention is paid to the breeding context in the target culture and translation studies are becoming target-culture studies. 　　In the 1990s, it claimed that Translation Studies had officially taken a Cultural Turn, which the original source-oriented prescriptive approach to translation is now giving way to the target-oriented descriptive approach. 　　In the paper, there is a case study in order to reveal the importance of social-cultural context in the process of shaping a translation work. It is about two Chinese versions of Gone with the Wind in different periods of time. One was translated by Fu Dong hua in 1940; the other was co-translated by Dai Kan, Li Ye guang and Zhuang Yi chuan in 1990. 　　Attempting to evaluate translation from a macro-perspective, this paper analyzes the social and cultural context of to Chinese versions of Gone with the Wind and finally gets the conclusion: translation works should be evaluated from a macro perspective rather than from linguistic or literary perspectives. 　　1.Literature review 　　Traditional translation theories judge translation works or translators either from literary or linguistic perspectiv