Nowadays China is facing anew era and "One Belt, One Road" initiative encourages activeintegration into the development of the world, through various countries'economic, trade, cultural, and regional integration. The “Belt and Road”, whichdraws on China’s rich cultural resources and exports cultures that are popularwith foreigners, is also becoming an effective channel for Chinese culture to“go out”. The Chinese culture, based on the “going out” strategy, spreadsabroad. The China Documentary DevelopmentResearch Report 2018 pointed out that domestic documentary films havecontinued to grow substantially in the past year, with an annual total outputvalue exceeding 6.026 billion yuan. The indirect economic and social benefitsbrought about by the documentary industry are even more immeasurable. Theseries of documentaries A Bite of Chinaand The Forbidden City ere broadcasted continuously in the countries alongthe "Belt and Road" and received constant acclaim from foreignaudiences. By watching China's excellent documentary, foreign audiences canexperience China with an open, inclusive, and innovative view. Therefore,Chinese documentaries go abroad to provide Chinese culture an activeexploration for “going out”.

Skopos theory is aconcept from the field of translation studies. It focuses on translation as anactivity with an aim or purpose, and on the intended addressee or audience ofthe translation. It was established by the German linguists Hans Vermeer and KatharinaReiszlig; and comprises the idea that translating and interpreting shouldprimarily take into account the function of the target text.

Paul Kussmaul（1995）explains this theory as: "the functionalapproach has a great affinity with Skopos theory. The function of a translationdepends on the knowledge, expectations, values and norms of the target readers,who are again influenced by the situation they are in and by the culture. Thesefactors determine whether the function of the source text or passages in thesource text can be preserved or have to be modified or even changed.”(Paul1995)

After thereform and opening up in China in the late 1970s, Chinese scholars began to knowabout Western academia and the exchanges were gradually deepened. At that time,Chinese scholars were trapped in the traditional translation thoughts. In orderto adapt to the new situation they began to turn their attention to Westerntranslation theories. Thus, Eugene Nida's "functional equivalence"theory, Peter Newman's "communicative translation" and "semantictranslation" ideas, and George Steiner's hermeneutic translation theoryhave been introduced to China. However, with the deepening of translationstudies the translation theory of linguistic schools cannot solve the problemsin practice, so domestic scholars began to criticize Nida theory. Under thecircumstance Skopos Theory enters China with its distinctive academic ideas,which has attracted the attention of domestic scholars and triggered widespreaddissemination.

The earliest commentary on Skopos Theory in Chinawas published in " Three translators from the Federal Republic of Germany",in 1987 by Gui Yuyuan, but it has not received much attention. Until 1995,Zhang Nanfeng and Chen Xiaowei published papers entitled " Go out of thedead end and establish translation studies " and " Brief Comment on‘translation function theory’". The Chinese translation communitygradually paid more attention to the study of Skopos Theory.

Since the introduction of the theory in 1987 toChina, there have been countless articles on Skopos Theory. Relevant researchmainly involves translation definition, strategy, translation criticism,translation teaching, literary translation, non-literary translation (includingtourism, movie subtitles, legal translation) and other topics. For example, inrecent years, many articles have combined Skopos Theory to study the choice oftranslation strategies, such as the article For example, in recent years, manyarticles have combined the translation teleology to study the choice oftranslation strategies, such as Xu Wei and Li Wei published in 2014, “Researchon the Translation Strategy of Tourism Materials under the Perspective ofSkopos Theory”, which further improved the quality of tourism materialstranslation. And Duan Tianshu's "Comparative Study of the ChapterCatalogue English Translation of the ‘Dream of Red Mansions’ " publishedin 2014 was a combination of the theory and literary works, and analyzed thedifferent translation strategies used in the English translation. Anotherexample is “Study on Scenario Comedy lt;Friendsgt; Subtitle Translation fromthe Perspective of Skopos Theory” published by Fang Juan in 2013, which appliedthe Skopos Theory to the translation analysis of movie subtitles. There arealso a few articles that combine the Skopos Theory with teaching. For example,in 2011, Jian Jianhua’s "Enlightenment of Skopos Theory on ChineseTranslation Teaching", combined with the theory of translational teaching,and proposes a fusion of innovative teaching methods in China and the West. Ithas an important influence on the cultivation of high-quality translationtalents in colleges and universities. Chen Xun conducted a preliminary analysisof the translation teleology in the "Exploration of Skopos Theory"published in 2011 to help readers understand the functionalism of Skopos Theory.

2. 研究的基本内容与方案

Basing on the Skopos Theory, this papertakes Masters in the Forbidden City as an example to explore the translation skills in translating Chinesecharacteristic words of documentary films. Studying the translation skills inChinese documentary films can help us share our unique culture to the worldwell. Thepaper will be divided into three parts, respectively introduction of SkoposTheory, documentary subtitle translation and analysis the translation skills of Masters in the Forbidden City. Inpart one this paper will introduce the definition of Skopos Theory and thecurrent studies of Skopo Theory. In part two the paper will mainly focus on thetranslation of documentary subtitle. In part three some examples will be chosenfrom the documentary and the translation skills used in the translation will beanalyzed. Part 3 is the most important part. And in the documentary Masters in the Forbidden City there aremany vocabularies with Chinese characteristics such as “incised and filled-inwith black lacquer” and “Meridian Gate” so the paper will mainly focus on thetranslation skills of Chinese unique vocabularies. The reason why I chooseSkopos Theory as a direction of Chinese documentary translation is that ourtarget audiences are not familiar with Chinese culture and our purpose is to makethem understand. There are ten basic translation skills including amplification,omission, conversion, division and combination, affirmative and negativetranslation, inversion, embedding, inserting, recasting, and induction. Thispaper will use the ten basic translation skills to analyze the subtitletranslation of “Masters in the Forbidden City”. Previously, there are people combineSkopos Theory with translation strategies to study the subtitle translation ofmovies or TV series. This paper will combine Skopos Theory with translationskills to study the subtitle translation of Chinese documentaries. At present,China's opening up to the outside world is still in full swing. We must notonly export our technology and capital, but also show our Chinese culture tothe world and show our "cultural confidence" .The English version of"A Bite of China" has made the world aware of Chinese cuisine, butthe current translated versions of Chinese documentaries are very limited. Weshould let more excellent Chinese documentaries go to the world.

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Nowadays China is facing anew era and "One Belt, One Road" initiative encourages activeintegration into the development of the world, through various countries'economic, trade, cultural, and regional integration. The “Belt and Road”, whichdraws on China’s rich cultural resources and exports cultures that are popularwith foreigners, is also becoming an effective channel for Chinese culture to“go out”. The Chinese culture, based on the “going out” strategy, spreadsabroad. The China Documentary DevelopmentResearch Report 2018 pointed out that domestic documentary films havecontinued to grow substantially in the past year, with an annual total outputvalue exceeding 6.026 billion yuan. The indirect economic and social benefitsbrought about by the documentary industry are even more immeasurable. Theseries of documentaries A Bite of Chinaand The Forbidden City ere broadcasted continuously in the countries alongthe "Belt and Road" and received constant acclaim from foreignaudiences. By watching China's excellent documentary, foreign audiences canexperience China with an open, inclusive, and innovative view. Therefore,Chinese documentaries go abroad to provide Chinese culture an activeexploration for “going out”.

Skopos theory is aconcept from the field of translation studies. It focuses on translation as anactivity with an aim or purpose, and on the intended addressee or audience ofthe translation. It was established by the German linguists Hans Vermeer and KatharinaReiszlig; and comprises the idea that translating and interpreting shouldprimarily take into account the function of the target text.

Paul Kussmaul（1995）explains this theory as: "the functionalapproach has a great affinity with Skopos theory. The function of a translationdepends on the knowledge, expectations, values and norms of the target readers,who are again influenced by the situation they are in and by the culture. Thesefactors determine whether the function of the source text or passages in thesource text can be preserved or have to be modified or even changed.”(Paul1995)

After thereform and opening up in China in the late 1970s, Chinese scholars began to knowabout Western academia and the exchanges were gradually deepened. At that time,Chinese scholars were trapped in the traditional translation thoughts. In orderto adapt to the new situation they began to turn their attention to Westerntranslation theories. Thus, Eugene Nida's "functional equivalence"theory, Peter Newman's "communicative translation" and "semantictranslation" ideas, and George Steiner's hermeneutic translation theoryhave been introduced to China. However, with the deepening of translationstudies the translation theory of linguistic schools cannot solve the problemsin practice, so domestic scholars began to criticize Nida theory. Under thecircumstance Skopos Theory enters China with its distinctive academic ideas,which has attracted the attention of domestic scholars and triggered widespreaddissemination.

The earliest commentary on Skopos Theory in Chinawas published in " Three translators from the Federal Republic of Germany",in 1987 by Gui Yuyuan, but it has not received much attention. Until 1995,Zhang Nanfeng and Chen Xiaowei published papers entitled " Go out of thedead end and establish translation studies " and " Brief Comment on‘translation function theory’". The Chinese translation communitygradually paid more attention to the study of Skopos Theory.

Since the introduction of the theory in 1987 toChina, there have been countless articles on Skopos Theory. Relevant researchmainly involves translation definition, strategy, translation criticism,translation teaching, literary translation, non-literary translation (includingtourism, movie subtitles, legal translation) and other topics. For example, inrecent years, many articles have combined Skopos Theory to study the choice oftranslation strategies, such as the article For example, in recent years, manyarticles have combined the translation teleology to study the choice oftranslation strategies, such as Xu Wei and Li Wei published in 2014, “Researchon the Translation Strategy of Tourism Materials under the Perspective ofSkopos Theory”, which further improved the quality of tourism materialstranslation. And Duan Tianshu's "Comparative Study of the ChapterCatalogue English Translation of the ‘Dream of Red Mansions’ " publishedin 2014 was a combination of the theory and literary works, and analyzed thedifferent translation strategies used in the English translation. Anotherexample is “Study on Scenario Comedy lt;Friendsgt; Subtitle Translation fromthe Perspective of Skopos Theory” published by Fang Juan in 2013, which appliedthe Skopos Theory to the translation analysis of movie subtitles. There arealso a few articles that combine the Skopos Theory with teaching. For example,in 2011, Jian Jianhua’s "Enlightenment of Skopos Theory on ChineseTranslation Teaching", combined with the theory of translational teaching,and proposes a fusion of innovative teaching methods in China and the West. Ithas an important influence on the cultivation of high-quality translationtalents in colleges and universities. Chen Xun conducted a preliminary analysisof the translation teleology in the "Exploration of Skopos Theory"published in 2011 to help readers understand the functionalism of Skopos Theory.

2. 研究的基本内容与方案

Basing on the Skopos Theory, this papertakes Masters in the Forbidden City as an example to explore the translation skills in translating Chinesecharacteristic words of documentary films. Studying the translation skills inChinese documentary films can help us share our unique culture to the worldwell. Thepaper will be divided into three parts, respectively introduction of SkoposTheory, documentary subtitle translation and analysis the translation skills of Masters in the Forbidden City. Inpart one this paper will introduce the definition of Skopos Theory and thecurrent studies of Skopo Theory. In part two the paper will mainly focus on thetranslation of documentary subtitle. In part three some examples will be chosenfrom the documentary and the translation skills used in the translation will beanalyzed. Part 3 is the most important part. And in the documentary Masters in the Forbidden City there aremany vocabularies with Chinese characteristics such as “incised and filled-inwith black lacquer” and “Meridian Gate” so the paper will mainly focus on thetranslation skills of Chinese unique vocabularies. The reason why I chooseSkopos Theory as a direction of Chinese documentary translation is that ourtarget audiences are not familiar with Chinese culture and our purpose is to makethem understand. There are ten basic translation skills including amplification,omission, conversion, division and combination, affirmative and negativetranslation, inversion, embedding, inserting, recasting, and induction. Thispaper will use the ten basic translation skills to analyze the subtitletranslation of “Masters in the Forbidden City”. Previously, there are people combineSkopos Theory with translation strategies to study the subtitle translation ofmovies or TV series. This paper will combine Skopos Theory with translationskills to study the subtitle translation of Chinese documentaries. At present,China's opening up to the outside world is still in full swing. We must notonly export our technology and capital, but also show our Chinese culture tothe world and show our "cultural confidence" .The English version of"A Bite of China" has made the world aware of Chinese cuisine, butthe current translated versions of Chinese documentaries are very limited. Weshould let more excellent Chinese documentaries go to the world.