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Heilongjiang University school of western study English department Graduating thesis research paper Subject of research study Translation Topic The glossology and influence of Harry Potter to Chinese readers Student Name 李宗念 Li Zongnian Student Number 20080014 Class English Writing Class No 1 Subject Translation Date September 5 2011 Teacher Prof Dan Ben Canaan The Subject The influence of Harry Potter to Chinese readers The glossology of Harry Potter The Process Magic new world view uninmaginable happy family friends guard trust different from the common novels easy to understand movies J K Rowling single parent UK English uses of words different from American ones Topic Part A The Difference between American and British Versions of Harry Potter Series glossology For the writer J K Rowling is a Britain woman so there are a lot of words are used different from the American writers novels So discussing these difference can learn lot of uses in theses two main kinds of English versions Part B The influence that Harry Potter to Chinese readers Before the book Harry Potter published Chinese young readers know about foreign literatures and novels are mainly about Shakespeare or other later writers works like The Great Gatsby or some other novels liked by little readers like Dragonlance a novel based on the D reading pictures refused to read the text Who will take their time to read books patiently However it is difficult to understand there is a thick book about millions of words which is so popular in the whole world in the lament sound books will disappear But actually millions of children became the fans of this book and made them back to the library from the console and the network This wonderful book is the British writer J K Rowling s Harry Potter series Harry Potter a handsome boy who rides a broomstick and wears a pair of round glasses has what charm that conquered the global audience J K Rowling once a poor single mother but now the richest woman in Britain today what magic she used produce a reading storm in the Internet Age 1997 J K Rowling published the first fantasy novel Harry Potter and the Sorcerer s Stone In just ten years she finished seven novels of Harry Potter series and set off a Harry Potter reading hot in the world This series of novels translated into more than 60 languages and were sold more than 200 million It is no longer simply a favorite literature by its readers but evolved into a cultural phenomenon Fantasy novels represented by Harry Potter have become a cultural trend in the western Why Harry Potter series became a cultural trend and accepted by different cultural value system A major reason is the magic world Harry Potter created is not the shadow of the real world but pure human spirit picture which once was a patent of children However in such a rich material society but lost in the spirit of post modern society human picture of pure soul do not showed in the traditional literature and modern literary works The general spirit of the crisis has not the appropriate comfort Rowling created the Harry Potter largely to meet the people s pursuit of such a pure heart picture Conclusion The readers who read the English versions should read the novel in a new way of Chinese versions for one can get more information and ideas about the world view and the situations of the book The learn of the book would develop the ability of English Bibliography 1 Difference between American and British Versions of Harry Potter