皮亚杰认知发展论对儿童文学翻译的启示——以《小王子》为例.pdfVIP

Abstract Children’s Literature has a relatively long history in Europe where it matured in 18th and 19th century. The renowned classic Children’s Literature works, Grimm’s Fairytale and Hans Christian Andersen’s Fairytale also came from this area. While, the history of Children’s Literature in China is relatively short. China began to translate and introduce foreign Children’s Literature works at the end of 19th century, but the target readers of those translation versions were not children because those Chinese versions carry obvious political purposes. After The May Fourth Movement, translators began to translate Children’s Literature works for children and many Children’s Literature works appeared in the book market. Even some famous writers like Mao Dun, Lun Xun and Zhao Yuanren translated some Children’s Literature works. Nevertheless, at that time, no one did exclusive researches on Children’s Literature Translation. Since the reform and opening up, children’s book market has prospered. The translation versions of Children’s Literature works occupied a large share, which even surpassed the indigenous ones and exerted great influence on Chinese children generation by generation. However, the translation of Children’s Literature works has some problems such as overflow of the translation versions of the same book, the coexistence of the versions with good quality and the ones with poor quality, and the low pertinence. These problems have negative impacts on children, their parents, translators and publishing houses in a direct or indirect way.