The recent decade has witnessed a growing scholarly attention on fan translation due to its shaping force in community building and identity formation. Traditionally perceived as a sub-field of cultural studies, fan translation has been studied mostly inside popular culture as a kind of activism to combat conformity. However, despite aiming its products at non-elite recipients, fan translation does not merely focus on source texts from popular culture. Being remediated into podcast storytelling, fan translation is also facilitating the introduction of Chinese canonical literature into Anglophone world, a long-standing challenge faced by governmental efforts such as state-sponsored translation projects. Drawing insights from research on fandom, podcasting and oral storytelling, this article carries out a case study on Romance of the Three Kingdoms Podcast, an English retelling of a Chinese classical novel, to investigate how fan translation is integrated with podcast storytelling to improve the reception of canonical texts among the masses. The article argues that a successful mélange of adapted textual features, acoustic varieties, as well as the mediality of podcast in fan-translation-based podcast storytelling has helped to established a fandom of listening to classical literature and the cultural capital of its fans, a phenomenon rarely seen in traditional translation.
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Fan Translation, Podcast Storytelling, Chinese Canonical Literature, Reception Among the Masses, Fandom, Cultural Capital
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Tianji Guo. (2022). The Synergy Between Fan Translation and Podcast Storytelling in Disseminating Chinese Canonical Literature: A Case Study on Romance of the Three Kingdoms Podcast. International Journal of Applied Linguistics and Translation, 8(2), 62-70. https://doi.org/10.11648/j.ijalt.20220802.14
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