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ISSN 1799-2591 Theory and Practice in Language Studies, Vol. 7, No. 1, pp. 49-54, January 2017 DOI: /10.17507/tpls.0701.06 Howard Goldblatt’s Three Treaties or Treatments of Translation Wensheng Deng Dept. of Foreign Languages, Beijing Institute of Petrol-chemical Technology, 102617, China Ke Zhang Dept. of Foreign Languages, Beijing Institute of Petrol-chemical Technology, 102617, China Abstract—The paper is an introduction and discussion of Howard Goldblatt’s three treaties or treatments of translations, i.e.1.The translation is faithful to the original as an organic unity, 2. the translation is supposed to faithfully convey the images of the original, 3.Above all, he always takes the readers of his translation into first consideration. The first clause refers to Howard Goldblatt’s rewriting of the original, to some extent, following western Poetics, which is loyal to the original as a whole; the second means to focus on rendering the original images to incarnate the original spirit, whose ultimate goal is to ensure the literariness of a translation; and the third one requires a translator, first of all, should put the readers of the translation in the first place, that is to say, reader-oriented, such as their aesthetic intent and interest, to arouse their resonance emotionally. By adopting the fore-mentioned principles, Howard Goldblatt’s translations are recognized and acclaimed over the stage of world literature. Index Terms—Howard Goldblatt, translating, organic unity, image, reader-oriented I. INTRODUCTION How do China’s literary classics go to glo