FAILURES IN TRANSLATING FROM CHINESE TO RUSSIAN (CASE STUDY OF THE PRECEDENT FEMALE NAME HUA MULAN)

Abstract

The article is dedicated to analysis by examples of unsuccessful translation of the Chinese precedent female name Hua Mulan from yuefu work “The Ballad of Mulan”. The subject of the research is the precedent female name Hua Mulan, which reflects the mentality of the Chinese people and their culture in specific texts, and the translation of text fragments describes female heroines in Russian. The Russian translation shows the readers a new picture of the ancient China events. As research methods, the researcher takes them into account historical and cultural analysis, the descriptive, analytical method, the method of comparative analysis and the method of semantic analysis. However, there are translation failures that distort the meaning of the original text and can cause readers to be confused, because the translator neglected to use the additional study of the materials. The study analyzes them in order to correct inaccuracies and provide more accurate cultural and conceptual information.