Twentieth-Century Chinese Translation Theory: Modes, issues and debates
Leo Tak-hung Chan
[Benjamins Translation Library, 51] 2004. xvi, 277 pp.
Leo Tak-hung Chan
List of John Benjamins publications for which Leo Tak-hung Chan plays a role.
Title
Subjects Translation Studies
2019 Chapter 4. Contemporary views of translation in China A World Atlas of Translation, Gambier, Yves and Ubaldo Stecconi (eds.), pp. 81–104 | Chapter
After a brief summary of the classical theories, this report discusses contemporary notions of translation in China with reference to their international and national dimensions. The first section deals with recent conceptualizations that have merged in response to China’s rise as an economic and… read more
2016 Beyond non-translation and “self-translation”: English as lingua academica in China Translation and Interpreting Studies 11:2, pp. 152–176 | Article
For non-Anglophone scholars, there are essentially three language options, leading to: (1) untranslated publications in languages other than English; (2) research written in English, although some kind of “internal translation” has occurred to the author concerned; and (3) research translated into… read more
2013 An Empirical Study of the Perceived Benefits of Finalyear Translation Projects to Undergraduate Translation Students FORUM 11:2, pp. 19–41 | Article
Abstract/Résumé
Toutes les universités d’état à Hong Kong proposant des cursus de niveau pré-licence en traduction exigent que leurs étudiants montent un projet en traduction, généralement durant leur dernière année d’étude. Ce type de cursus est unique car la formation est dispensée de manière… read more
1999 Translation and Creation: Readings of Western Literature in early Modern China, 1840-1918 Babel 45:2, pp. 188–192 | Miscellaneous
1998 Does the Narrator Get Translated Into Chinese? The Literary-Critical Approach to the Evaluation of Translated Fiction Babel 44:1, pp. 46–64 | Article
Abstract The translation of narrative fiction, unlike that of poetry and drama, has received little critical attention, because it has not been deemed distinctive enough to merit study in its own right. The purpose of the article is to define the literary-critical approach to evaluating translated… read more
1998 LIberal versions: late Qing approaches to translating aesop’s fables Translation and Creation: Readings of Western Literature in Early Modern China, 1840–1918, Pollard, David E. (ed.), pp. 57–78 | Article
1997 The impressionistic approach to translation theorizing, or: Twentieth-century Chinese ideas of translation htrough the western looking-glass Translation as Intercultural Communication: Selected papers from the EST Congress, Prague 1995, Snell-Hornby, Mary, Zuzana Jettmarová and Klaus Kaindl (eds.), pp. 57–66 | Article