1st Edition

An Overview of Chinese Translation Studies at the Beginning of the 21st Century Past, Present, Future

By Weixiao Wei Copyright 2020
248 Pages 5 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

248 Pages 5 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

248 Pages 5 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

An Overview of Chinese Translation Studies at the Beginning of the 21st Century presents and analyses over 100,000 bibliographic notes contained within a large academic database focusing on translation within China. Exploring Chinese translation studies two decades before and after the year 2000, the book will introduce aspects of theory, culture, strategy, register, genre, and context to... Read more

Introduction  Chapter 1. The inception of Chinese translation theory  Chapter 2. The blossoming of Chinese translation theory  Chapter 3. Chinese translation activities, translators and translation theory  Chapter 4. The translation of Chinese culture and the culturization of Chinese translation  Chapter 5. Translating Chinese literature  Chapter 6. Chinese Translation: from research to teaching

Biography

Weixiao Wei is currently a Lecturer at Taiyuan University of Technology in China. She obtained her MA in Foreign Languages and Literature from Taiyuan University of Technology in 2010. Her research interests include discourse analysis, language education, and translation studies. She has contributed to multiple Routledge Handbooks, including: The Routledge Handbook of Chinese Applied Linguistics, The Routledge Handbook of Chinese Discourse Analysis, and The Routledge Handbook of Chinese Language Teaching.