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This thesis is divided into six chapters. The first chapter is introduction. The second chapter is literature review, which describes the author of The Prophet and his works as well as the two translators of The Prophet and their translations and other works. The third chapter discusses the translation strategies of the two Chinese translations from the aspects of accuracy, word order, omission, and amplification by using Lawrence Venuti’s domesticating and foreignization as important theories. The fourth discusses the differences between the two Chinese translations from the perspective of semantics, with emphasis on fluency, word choice, religious specific references, and Eugene A. Nida’s equivalent theory. The fifth chapter compares the two Chinese translations from the perspective of rhetoric and syntax, and focuses on the four-character Chinese idiom, antithesis, metaphor, and the presentation of the true meaning of pronouns. It is hoped that those who are interested in Gibran, The Prophet, and its English-to-Chinese translations can benefit from reading this thesis.
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