Howard Goldblatt is a translator of numerous works of contemporary Chinese fictions,.Goldblatt also translated many works of Mo Yan who is a Chinese novelist and the winner of Nobel Prize in Literature in 2012, including six of Mo Yan's novels and collections of stories. He was a Research Professor of Chinese at the University of Notre Dame from 2002-201.
2.2 Introduction to German Functionalist Theory
In 1970, Kaitharina Reiss, the German translator, has published her work “Possibilities and Limitations in Translation Criticism”. In this book, we can see that if text equivalence is accomplished then the text function must be regarded as a criterion. (Prince, G, 1987) 从功能目的论探讨莫言《蛙》的英译(3):http://www.751com.cn/yingyu/lunwen_19901.html