A Study on Zhang Peiji's Selected Modern Chinese Essays from the Perspective of Xu Yuanchong’s “Three-Beauty” Principle

Prose, together with poetry, novel and drama, is regarded as one of the most important literary genre in both China and western countries. Since 1990s, Zhang Peiji began to translate modern Chinese essays into English out of his fondness of English language and Chinese prose. This paper attempts to use Xu Yuanchong’s “Three-Beauty” principle to analyze Zhang Peiji’s Selected Modern Chinese Essays to see if Zhang has displayed the beauties of the original text. The study shows that Zhang succeeded in reproducing the beauty of sense, sound and form of the original.