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Title：A Case Study of The Peony Pavilion by the translator Wang Rongpei from the Perspective of Textual Function Major: Linguistics and Applied Linguistics of Foreign Language Name: Yang Puhui Signature: Supervisor: Li Li Signature: Abstract In 1970s, the functionalist translation theory began to emerge in Germany. Immediately, it aroused the extensive concern in the academic circles. The German functionalist approaches, which no longer focused on the traditional equivalence-centered linguistic translation theory, provide a brand new perspective for the research translation practice and evaluation. Four contributors to the formation of the theory are Katharine Reiss, Hans Vermeer, Justa-Manttari and Christiane Nord. Katharine Reiss, an important figure and also the founder of the functionalist school, advocated examining the whole translation process from the perspective of functions. She put forward a research model of translation criticism based on the functional relationship between the source text and target text and meanwhile classified the textual function into three kinds, namely representational, expressive, and operative. Therefore, she proposed a multi-level translation strategy according to the different text type, translation aims and cultural factors. In recent years, as the exchange between China and the Western world has been continuously strengthened, traditional Chinese drama has been gradually arousing world attention. The Peony Pavilion is generally considered to be the cornerstone of traditional Chinese drama with its poetic language, magnificent structure and admiring love story. The drama is featured with abundant allusions, idioms, historical figures, rhymes which have deep connotations. So the translators should take the target readers‘ receptivity and the faithfulness to the original into full consideration Under the guidance of textual functions raised by Reiss, the relevant analysis about the Peony Pavilion will be conducted in Wang