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On the Translator’s Cultural Awareness and Cultural Creativity PAGE 1 PAGE 22 16 On the Translator’s Cultural Awareness and Cultural Creativity? ? This paper is sponsored by Hunan Provincial Social Science Fund Program: Cross-cultural Communication and Translation Assessment Model, chaired by Prof. Guoyuan Tu. Abstract: In translation, which has been seen as intercultural communication, how and whether culture should be transferred depends and each, either alienation or adaptation, with its merits and demerits, could be justified in its own right if looked at from a certain angle, and the issue is that the translator should know what he is doing and has his cultural awareness and creativity in the actual operation of cultural elements. Key words: culture translation alienation adaptation cultural awareness cultural creativity With the influence of, among others, communication theory, the state of the art of translation studies over the past several decades can find best expression in a shift from a linguistic approach to a cultural approach. With the two approaches integrated, translation has now been broadly seen as an act of intercultural communication (Guo Jianzhong, 2000). So far, much literature has been devoted to the hot subject of cultural translation, and the dispute between alienation and adaptation has been one of the central issues concerned. People are always asking how and whether culture should be transferred. In this thesis, the author holds that how and whether culture should be transferred depends and each, either alienation or adaptation, with its merits and demerits, could be justified in its own right if looked at from a certain angle, and the issue is that the translator should know what he is doing and has his cultural awareness and creativity in the actual process of translation. Culture is an ambiguous and intriguing concept. What has been termed the classic definition of culture was provided by Edward Burnett Tylor,