The Song of Everlasting Sorrow，the translation of Wang Anyi＇s novel，is acclaimed as “a genuine classic ”．It reproduces the power and beauty of Wang’s literary world by taking a diversity of translation strategies to adjust the otherness of the original to the aesthetic habits and cognitive abilities of western readers．The conflicts between fidelity and readability，the original writer and readers have been reconciled into a state of harmonious co-existence．The case study of the translating process can provide a good reference to the way contemporary Chinese literature goes abroad．