Intercultural Communication of Contemporary Chinese Science Fiction Literature: Focus and Recognition in Readers' Reception of Liu Cixin's Three-Bodies Trilogy

Abstract

Based on the 'reader reviews' of the bestselling 'Three Bodies' trilogy on Amazon.com in the US, this paper uses sentiment analysis to interpret the comments of overseas readers and quantify their positive and negative attitudes. The analysis shows that overseas readers generally have a positive attitude towards the translation of Three Bodies and have a high acceptance level. American readers were generally concerned about and praised the characters, the narrative perspective, the plot and the translation. Research shows that the combination of the work's own literary and ideological qualities，its full intercultural and universal value, and the translator's faithfulness in preserving and deepening the heterogeneous elements of the original work, have contributed to the book's success.In summary, it was found that the success of foreign dissemination required textual factors such as a brilliant Chinese story and a unique narrative style in the work, plus non-textual factors such as excellent translation.