Author(s)

Yan Gong ¹, Xinyao Guo ¹, Qiaoling Zhu ¹, Runshuang Shi ¹, Tianwen Liao ¹, Qing Xi ¹

Affiliation(s)

¹ College of Humanities, Jiangxi University of Chinese Medicine, Nanchang, Jiangxi, China

Corresponding Author

Yan Gong

ABSTRACT

With the gradual progress of the overseas dissemination of traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM), it has become an inevitable trend to popularize the knowledge and culture of TCM health preservation among the Western public. Through the analysis of the language characteristics of popular science texts and the selection of dissemination contents of popular science works, this paper explores the English translation of three types of texts in Li Shizhen's health preservation thoughts and the dissemination of Li Shizhen's health preservation thoughts in the new media era, proposes 3 corresponding translation strategies respectively , namely , popularization, conciseness and retention of the rhythm in translating Li Shizhen's health preservation thoughts, and suggests that dimension reduction, dilution, and emotional packaging should be adopted to enhance the attractiveness of popular science works and achieve better dissemination effects and continue to maintain the diversification of dissemination forms by making full use of new technologies such as VR and AI, in order to provide references for the cross-cultural dissemination of TCM culture.

KEYWORDS

TCM popular science, Li Shizhen's health preservation thoughts, English translation, dissemination

CITE THIS PAPER

Yan Gong, Xinyao Guo, Qiaoling Zhu, Runshuang Shi, Tianwen Liao, Qing Xi, The English Translation and Cross-cultural Dissemination of Li Shizhen's Health Preservation Thoughts from the Perspective of TCM Popular Science. MEDS Chinese Medicine (2025) Vol. 7: 1-6. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.23977/medcm.2025.070101.

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