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Acknowledgements I would like to take this opportunity to thank all people who have supported me in the process of writing this thesis. First of all, I would like to express my sincere thanks to my supervisor Professor Zhang Sijie for his great encouragement and guidance. During the whole process of composing the thesis, he has given me enlightening instructions and helped me through various stages of my thesis writing. Secondly, I want to express my gratitude to all the professors, especially to the teachers, my friends and my classmates, who have offered me constructive suggestions and reference materials. Last but not least, I must express my thanks to my family for their love and support throughout my postgraduate study. Abstract Biancheng, as the masterpiece of Shen Congwen (a contemporary novelist, essayist, researcher on historical relics and the representative figure of the Beijing School novelists), constitutes an excellent medium-length novel devoted to depicting country flavors. With its unique artistic charm and picturesque depiction of country flavors, the novel has attracted the attention of many overseas reader and has been translated to dozens of foreign languages and selected to be included in university textbooks of more than ten countries including United States of America, UK and Japan, thus greatly facilitating cultural exchanges between China and the west. Given this, the domestic translation field is yet to conduct more studies on translation of the works of Shen Congwen. With the adaptation theory of Verschueren as the theoretical frame, the thesis aims to introduce the theory to studies of the English translation of the novel while making significant explorations of the adaptation frame of literary translation. Published in 1981, the first translation—TheBorder Town the thesis refers to is translated by Yang Hsienyi and Gladys Margaret Tayler. Yilin Publishing House published the bilingual version of Biancheng in 2009, a version