According to Jakobson’s definition, intralingual translation involves rewording an already translated text in the same target language; however, discussions on a special kind of intralingual translation, Self-Retranslation, i.e. the translator retranslating his or her own previous versions, are few. This paper examines Self-Retranslation from within the wider perspective of intralingual translation. Two issues, which are the real relation between the source text and the target text, and self-referentiality framed in self-retranslator’s mind, are proposed and elaborated, based on two intralingual English translations of the classic Chinese novel San Guo Yan Yi. According to Jakobson’s definition, intralingual translation of rewording an already translated text in the same target language; however, discussions on a special kind of intralingual translation, Self-Retranslation, ie the translator retranslating his or her own previous versions, are few. This paper examines Self-Retranslation from within the wider perspective of intralingual translation. Two issues, which are the real relation between the source text and the target text, and self-referentiality framed in self-retranslator’s mind, are proposed and elaborated, based on two intralingual English translations of the classic Chinese novel San Guo Yan Yi.