In China,individualism is translated into "个人主义",whereas in western culture,the connotation of individualism doesn't equal to "个人主义" in China.Individualism is the soul of western culture which consists of the core part of western civilization,however,when interpreted into Chinese,individualism represents selfish.It is obvious that individualism is turned from positive into negative.The paper attempts at the proper translation and proves into the equivalence theory to find the reason.
