Modes and Effects of Dissemination of Northeast Gao Mi Cultural Memes of Life and Death are Wearing Me Out in Foreign Countries

Memes are units of cultural dissemination, which can be copied and imitated. The duplicating and spreading process of cultural memes is dynamic and variable, which is actually a communication between a source language and a target language. The replicability of a literary works and its spreading effects in foreign countries are closely related to its translation, translator and the target readers. In Goldblatt’s Life and Death are Wearing Me Out, Chesterman’s five super-memes of translating displayed in the translation, the translating method adopted by the translator and the feedback and acceptability of foreign all showed the spreading modes and effects of the northeast Gao mi cultural memes, which is hopefully helpful to explore the spreading models of cross-culture in translation of modern Chinese literary works and to promote the national policy of “Chinese culture going global” strategy in present day China.