The Globalization of Chinese Online Literature via a Bourdieusian Capital Perspective

A Case Study of Coiling Dragon

DOI

10.2991/assehr.k.211025.062How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Coiling Dragon, Pierre Bourdieu, Capital theory, Cultural capital, Translation sociology, “Going global”

Abstract

The globalization of Chinese online literature has become more and more phenomenal in recent years. Based on the perspectives of translation sociology and particularly of the French sociologist Bourdieu’s capital theory, which involves economic capital, cultural capital, symbolic capital and social capital, this article analyzes the process of globalization of one of the earliest overseas-published Chinese online literature Coiling Dragon, in order to explain the success of it in terms of capital flow in the transcultural dissemination of translated Chinese texts. With the sociological analysis of the translated Coiling Dragon, it is concluded that the successful globalization of Coiling Dragon is closely related to the author, the translator, the publishing agency, and the governmental policy. These factors, together with the play of economic capital, cultural capital, symbolic capital and social capital, establish Coiling Dragon’s ranking at the top five in the fantasy section of Wuxiaworld, and is evaluated as ‘overwhelmingly recommended’ among overseas readers. This article tries to map out the dynamic relationships among these factors and demonstrate that the cultural capital and symbolic capital the original author holds and the cultural, economic and social capital the translator holds help Coiling Dragon successfully go global.

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© 2021, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Jialing Wu
AU  - Chunfang Yi
PY  - 2021
DA  - 2021/10/26
TI  - The Globalization of Chinese Online Literature via a Bourdieusian Capital Perspective
BT  - Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Language, Communication and Culture Studies (ICLCCS 2021)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 376
EP  - 382
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.211025.062
DO  - 10.2991/assehr.k.211025.062
ID  - Wu2021
ER  -