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Research Article

Vol. 2 No. 2 (2026): International Journal of Multidisciplinary Research

The Chinese Non-Equivalent Words from the Old Tea House of Old Tales and Photos of Kunming in Reminiscence and Their Ways of Translation into English

DOI
https://doi.org/10.65231/ijmr.v2i2.127
Submitted
February 9, 2026
Published
2026-03-09

Abstract

This article puts concentration on the Chinese non-equivalent words in the Old Tea House part from the book Old Tales and Photos of Kunming in Reminiscence and the methods adopted in translating these non-equivalent words into English. By using the theoretical analysis, induction and deduction, this article displays many tables to give a classification of the non-equivalent words and the translation strategies, meanwhile, with the statistic ways, the article specifically shows the proportions of the non-equivalent words and the translation methods, so as to spread Chinese culture abroad and smoothly carry on cross cultural communication.

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