Construction and Application of the Chinese-English Composite Corpora of Homogeneous Texts by Mao Zedong

doi:10.3969/j.issn.1674-8921.2023.06.018

Abstract

Abstract:

Based on the changes in different versions of texts, this paper discusses the issue of homogeneous texts and their translations at the theoretical level, and introduces the homogeneous texts in Mao Zedong's works and their English translations. On that basis, the paper describes the design and creation of the Chinese-English Composite Corpora of Homogeneous Texts by Mao Zedong, and introduces the basic information, research models and application areas of the corpora. Compared with parallel corpora in the general sense, the Chinese-English Composite Corpora of Homogeneous Texts by Mao Zedong can be used to examine the changes between homogeneous texts, and relevant findings can not only explain the discrepancies between different translations, but also shed new light on many relevant research areas, including the studies of Mao's discourse, the studies of Mao's thought, the studies of China's national image construction from diverse perspectives.

Key words: changes in versions, homogenous texts, Chinese-English Composite Corpora of Homogeneous Texts by Mao Zedong

CLC Number:

H315.9

SHI Xinyu, HUANG Libo. Construction and Application of the Chinese-English Composite Corpora of Homogeneous Texts by Mao Zedong[J]. Contemporary Foreign Languages Studies, 2023, 23(6): 175-184.

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译本	译文标题	译文词数	原文标题	原文出处	原文词数
SWM	A Single Spark Can Start a Prairie Fire	4,488	星星之火, 可以燎原	《毛泽东选集》(毛泽东1951)	3,461
MRP	Letter to Comrade Lin Biao	5,448	给林彪同志的信	《毛泽东选集》(续编本)(中国共产党晋察冀中央局1947)	4,116

子库	来源	篇目范围及数量
翻译文本库	Selected Works of Mao Tse-tung(外文出版社1961,1965a,1965b,1965c) Mao's Road to Power: Revolutionary Writings 1912~1949(M. E. Sharpe 1992,1994,1995,1997,1999,2004,2005;Routledge 2015)	卷1(17篇);卷2(40篇);卷3(29篇) 卷2(2篇);卷3(4篇);卷4(4篇);卷5(5篇);卷6(13篇);卷7(33篇);卷8(24篇)
同源文本库	《毛泽东选集》(人民出版社1951,1952,1953,1960) 《毛泽东集》(苍苍社1983) 《毛泽东集补卷》(苍苍社1983~1986) 《毛泽东选集》(人民出版社1991) 《毛泽东选集续编》(新华书店1947年)	卷1(17篇);卷2(40篇);卷3(29篇) 卷1(2篇);卷2(3篇);卷3(2篇);卷4(2篇);卷5(10篇);卷6(7篇);卷7(17篇);卷8(7篇);卷9(16篇) 卷5(1篇);卷6(1篇);卷8(1篇);卷9(1篇) 卷1(1篇);卷2(11篇);卷3(1篇) 1篇

SWM译本节选篇目		MRP译本篇目
原文标题	译文标题	原文标题	译文标题
必须注意经济工作	Pay Attention to Economic Work	粉碎五次“围剿”与苏维埃经济建设任务	Smashing the Fifth“Encirclement and Suppression”and the Tasks of Economic Construction
我们的经济政策	Our Economic Policy	中华苏维埃共和国中央执行委员会与人民委员会对第二次全国苏维埃代表大会的报告	Report of the Central Executive Committee and the Council of People's Commissars of the Chinese Soviet Republic to the Second National Soviet Congress
实践论	On Practice	辩证法唯物论(讲授提纲)	On Dialectical Materialism (Lecture Notes)
矛盾论	On Contradiction	辩证法唯物论(讲授提纲)	On Dialectical Materialism (Lecture Notes)
中国共产党在民族战争中的地位	The Role of the Chinese Communist Party in the National War	论新阶段	On the New Stage
抗战时期的经济问题和财政问题	Economic and Financial Problems in the Anti-Japanese War	经济问题与财政问题	Economic and Financial Problems

子库	库容(万词)	类别	形符(万词)
翻译文本库	92.0	SWM译本 MRP译本	36.5 55.5
同源文本库	71.6	SWM源文本 MRP源文本	28.6 42.9

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