Purposeful Chinese Translations Reframe Anthropomorphic Animal in The Call of the Wild

This study analyzes two Chinese translations of Jack London's The Call of the Wild, focusing on how the anthropomorphic character Buck is reshaped to align with different reader contexts. The 1935 translation humanizes Buck to foster working-class identification while maintaining his animalistic traits to support socialist ideals. The paper explores the visual and textual strategies used to recalibrate Buck's humanity-animality blend in these translations.

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