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Reading report : the border town During this winter vacation ,I read an English rendering of an famous Chinese literary work Bian Cheng , and its translated name is The Border Town . I have already read the original work in Chinese when I was in the high school and in my view, it is an story full of esthetic feeling and it shows us how tranquil and simple life in the border town is . As the closest literary work to the Nobel Prize in Literature in the mainland ,Bian Cheng is not only a splendid novella, but also a comely ,elegant and woeful pastoral which expresses the writers deep affection about his hometown—Feng Huang，a small frontier county in west Hunan Province． So when I found this version in the school library , I borrowed it without any hesitation , I was so curious that l really cant believe how could such an typical Chinese novella being rendered into another language ? And how could the foreign translator grasp the essence of it and whether she can represent successfully the original aesthetic value in the work or even reproduce the tranquility and pathos are all great challenges for the translator． But after reading a few chapters , I had to say this is a very good translation . The translator Gladys Yang (Dai NaiDie) reproduced the aesthetic connotations in the novel in terms of the beauty in the regional flavor and in the artistic conception as proposed by the translation aesthetics. Her successful work shows that in literature translation it is advisable to follow the principle of seeking common ground while reserving small differences or seeking functional equivalence in conveying the aesthetic connotations . Although l no little about literary translation or aesthetics ,I can sense the rhyme that Shen CongWen wanted to express in the version of Yang . This kind of rhyme not only add some aesthetic feeling to the original work but make the translated one closer to the connotations in the original . Shen Congwen presents the