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The success of the English translation of Jin Yong's martial arts novel  The Legend of Condor Heroes  ('LCH') has challenged the view that Jin's works are untranslatable, demanding new scholarly interpretations. With a corpus-aided approach, this paper investigates the translator's narrative intervention based on the omissions in LCH's English translation. This study demonstrates an average omission rate of 21.1%, with most omitted content falling into three categories, namely, historical-cultural information, fighting-scene information, and character-perception information. The omissions have reshaped LCH's narrative structure with the removal of actions at the story level, the shortening of narrative time at the narrative level, and the transformation of consciousness presentation and the reduction of narratorial interference at the narration level. Such intervention is aimed at resolving the conflicts of narrative norms between the source and target cultures. By following the target narrative norms, the translator has turned LCH into a fast-paced modern-looking English fantasy, which may be one of the reasons for its success. This finding reaffirms that adherence to target norms is conducive to the acceptance of translations of martial arts novels.

Translator’s narrative intervention in the English translation of Jin Yong’s The Legend of Condor Heroes