A Comparative Study of Yī Jiàn Xiǎo Shì and A Small Incident Rendered by the Yangs

Lu Xun’s short stories play a prominent role in the history of modern Chinese literature, and a number of Sinologists have studied them and published their English translations. This paper selects “ Yī Jiàn Xiǎo Shì ” in Lu Xun’s collection “ Call to Arms ” as the object of study, taking hypotaxis and parataxis as the starting point, and compares the translation of Yang Hsien-yi and Gladys Yang with the original version, studying the differences between the them in the process of C-E translation. It is hoped that some flexible conversion strategies in English-Chinese translation can be learned from the translation research.