In the early 20th century, many Westerners visited China and produced a lot of travelogues about China and Mount Tai. Their different concerns and attitudes caused their accounts depicted the different sides of Mount Tai. The Westerners have different understandings or even misunderstandings of Mount Tai. Some misunderstandings were due to cross-cultural communication. Mistranslations also appeared in literature back-translation for the lack of knowledge about the local attractions and cultures, which makes the readers' understandings rather obscure. Thus it’s of importance to analyze the travelogues and then compare the images with the native ones. During the culture transmission and translation, some issues should be specially noticed. We should keep an open mind to trace the origin and illustrate the real face of the issues.

Guo Pengpeng. Several Thoughts of Culture Translation and Transmission Based on Travelogues about Mount Tai. The Frontiers of Society, Science and Technology (2023) Vol. 5, Issue 8: 77-85. https://doi.org/10.25236/FSST.2023.050810.

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