Study on Tune C-E Translation from the Perspective of Translation Aesthetics: Taking Ascendant Peace in the Four Seas, A Religious Play in Zhejiang and Anhui Province as an Example

Wenjun Li, Xiuzhong Yang

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¹ School of Art, Zhejiang International Studies University, Hangzhou, China,

² Teaching Affairs, Zhejiang International Studies University, Hangzhou, China,

erd 2025 , 7(4), 70–76; https://doi.org/10.26689/erd.v7i4.10356

© 2025 by the Authors. Licensee Whioce Publishing, Singapore. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License ( https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ )

Abstract

Translation aesthetics provides a new approach to translation studies on Opera. From the perspective of translation aesthetics, this paper studies the translation strategies in the process of C-E translation taking as an example the eight tunes in manuscripts of Ascendant Peace in the Four Seas, a well-known religious play of Kun Opera of Zhejiang and Anhui province, maintaining that tunes translation mainly adopts foreignization, supplemented by domestication.

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