This paper approaches style translation studies in Chinese traditional translation theory.

Thus the viewpoint of“language is the basis of style translation”is agreed upon by both groups which hold the point of translatability or untranslatability.

Study of style translation, particularly of the translation of style in fiction, remains remarkably traditional, as Shen Dan states that it is characterized by general and impressionistic comments on style or by an intuitive analysis with a notable lack of sensitivity to subtle stylistic devices.

In translation styles,every one of them has her own style.

In the light of Thomas Hardy s aesthetic thoughts in the description of the nature in his The Return of the Native,this paper attempts to analyze Zhang Gu-ruo s translation style in terms of the beauty in his language,in emotional flavor and in artistic conception as proposed by translation aesthetics,and also view his artistic reproduction of the aesthetic connotations in the novel.

Translator’s translation style is a new subject of translation studies.

Literary Stylistics, as an intermediary discipline between linguistic and literary critics, has been introduced to handle translation of style in a more systematic and practical way.

The translation of style has always been a necessary element in translation evaluation,thus it has been taken into consideration by famous translators at home and abroad in theirpractice as well as theoretical research.

An analysis of style representation in literary translation;

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On limitation of polysystem theory in its application to the modern translated literature of China;

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Polysystem believes that domestication is usually adopted when translated literature is at the core of literature system and foreignization is employed when at the periphery in a specific societal-historical context.