Abstract: In the past hundred years,Chinese scholars have translated the booktitle of Dewey's Democracy and Education into almost ten different versions, which resulted in many faces of Dewey's democractic education thought. From the popular Chinese version "ping min zhu yi yu jiao yu"in the 1910s-1920s to "min ben zhu yi yu jiao yu" in the 1930s and "min zhu zhu yi yu jiao yu" in the 1940s till now,the Chinese translation of Dewey's Democracy and Education has been changing under the influence of social transformation in different times,in response to social development. Generally speaking, the translating and dissemination process of Democracy and Education in the past century is not only creating a more and more lifelike repetition of Dewey's text thought,but re-creating a stronger interpretation with the changing social contexts of time and space. In the new era, Dewey's Democracy and Education still needs to be translated into a transformative interpretation to adapt to the new change of the times and reveal its contemporary implications.

Key words: Dewey, democracy, democratism, Democracy and Education