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Chapter 1 Introduction 

April  of  2012  was  doomed  to  be  a  tumultuous  time  for  China.  A  maritime stand-off took place between Chinese maritime authority vessels and Philippine Navy and Coast Guard ships after a Chinese fishing boat drove into Huanyan Island. Hot on the Philippines’ heels, Ishihara Sintaro, governor of Tokyo, put up a “nationalization” scheme for Diaoyu Island, “buying” the island from a Japanese “owner”. The blatant actions  of  territorial  infringement  overwhelm  Chinese  people  with  huge  outrage  up and down the country. These international incidents almost become a topic, a theme, Chinese people cannot bypass, or are unwilling to avoid.  How  Chinese  translators,  particularly  those  who  deal  with  the  translation  of English news would act and respond to in the vortex of island conflicts looms large in translation studies.  For  example,  when  the  original  text  writes  down  “senkakusu”,  rather  than Diaoyu Island, if the translator translates it by letter, then he/she is a faithful translator but  might  not  be  a  qualified  Chinese  person,  if  the  translator  turns  it  into  “Diaoyu Island”,  then  he/she  is  in  the  danger  of  being  called  an  irresponsible  translator especially  if  the  original  text  is  plainly  alongside  with  the  translation.  Putting  the original  news  and  its  translation  in  a  single  text  may  be  a  splendid  way  for English-learning,  though  it  would  surely  throw  the  tension  and  challenges  faced  by translators  into  a  spotlight,  particularly  when  it  comes  to  contemporary  political conflicts.

1.1 Research background 
Ever since the birth of Translation Studies, it has been seemingly geared towards taking literary pieces or their history as its research object.In  as  early  as  19th  century,  Schleiermacher,  the  great  philosopher,  theologian, and  above  all,  linguist,  made  his  views  felt  by  saying  that  the  real  translation encompasses  only  literary  and  natural  sciences’  works  and  the  rest  translation  are mechanical  and  practical.  (Schleiermacher,  cited  in  Tan  Zaixi,  2004/2013:107) According  to  his  understanding,  political  news  translations  would  definitely  not  be seen as a real translation and thus not worth of a research eye. Although  Translation  Studies  celebrates  politics,  ideology,  and  culture  as  its recurring  theme,  it’s  pretty  plain  that  non-literary  texts,  especially  those  with本论文由英语论文网提供整理，提供论文代写，英语论文代写，代写论文，代写英语论文，代写留学生论文，代写英文论文，留学生论文代写相关核心关键词搜索。