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A CONTRASTIVE STUDY OF THE STRATEGIES FOR TWO CHINESE VERSIONS OF GONE WITH THE WIND — FROM THE PERSPECTIVE OF RECEPTION THEORY By Chen Yanyan Under the Supervision of Prof. Zhou Fangzhu A thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts to the School of Foreign Studies Anhui University April 2009 i i Acknowledgements I would like to avail myself of this opportunity to express my heartfelt gratitude to all those who have made my study possible. To begin with, I would like to express my special thanks to Professor Zhou Fangzhu, my supervisor, for his precious help and guidance, his insightful comments and enlightening suggestions in the course of my thesis writing. Without his kindness, patience and continuing encouragement, this thesis could never have come into its present form. My sincere gratitude also goes to all my teachers in the School of Foreign Studies of Anhui University. They are Professor Zhu Yue, Professor Zhang Ming, Doctor Hu Jian, Doctor Yang Ling，Doctor Zhu Xiaomei, and Doctor Zhang Hongxia, whose instructive lectures and inspiring ideas have benefited me a lot. Besides, I am grateful to my family and friends for their constant encouragement and valuable suggestions in my writing. Finally, thank all those who have spent a lot of time reading this thesis and given me sound advice, which will benefit me in my later study. ii ii Abstract This thesis attempts to investigate the reader‘s role in literary translation particularly in the field of translation strategies according to reception theory. As two opposite translation strategies, domestication and foreignization have long been the focus of discussion both at home and abroad. Here, the author studies this old topic from a new perspective. Traditional translation studies mainly focus on comparison between the source text and the target text to set down rules regulating perfect translation, while little conscious attention is paid to the reader‘s role in t