The Routledge Handbook of Chinese Interpreting

Foreword

Introduction

1 Usage patterns of the verbs Yi (interpreting) and Chongyi (relay interpreting) in early Imperial China
Rachel Lung

2 The position of Chinese interpreters in the nineteenth-century Dutch East Indies
Audrey Heijns

3 Needed by all, trusted by none: interpreters for the Chinese laborers on the Western Front during World War I Fang Qian

4 Forging a critical link for communication at war: China’s World War II interpreter training practice
Jie Liu

5 Revisiting interpreters’ mediation in political settings through the lens of evaluative shifts
Jing Huang

6 Exploring non- professional interpreting in museums: a multimodal perspective
Jiqing Dong

7 Risk management in media interpreting: a case of press conferences for Chinese cinema at the 2023 Berlinale
Xu Li and Cheng Zhan

8 Interpreting English police interview questions into Mandarin: an analysis from Mandarin- speaking interviewees’ perspective
Tiansu Zhang, Miranda Lai, and Georgina Heydon

9 What can a bilingual corpus tell us about the interpretation of rape trials?
Ester S.M. Leung

10 Development of evaluation system for teleconference interpreting: taking medical interpreting as an example
Jing Lei, Likai Yin, and Fangyuan Hua

11 Multimodality in note- taking: a social semiotic approach
Liwen Chang

12 Sight translation between Chinese and English: an overview
Jing Fang

13 Reading processes in English-Chinese sight interpreting/translation tasks
Chen- En Ho and Yao Xiao

14 Modelling error types in consecutive interpreting
Rong Lu, Muhammad Alif Redzuan Abdullah, and Lay Hoon Ang

15 Mapping the role space of sign language interpreters in Chinese hospitals
Xiaoyan Xiao, Yezi Li, and Xiao Zhao

16 Chinese interpreter education at the First Graduate School of Translation and Interpretation on the Chinese mainland: evolution of programs, curricula, selection, and pedagogy
Xinchao Lu

17 Training and education for Chinese interpreters: programs and certifications
Yi Liu and Dechao Li

18 Teaching professional ethics to students of interpreting in the Chinese context
Bin Yao and Jie Zhu

19 Trainee interpreters’ perceptions of the utilities of exemplars in assessing interpreting performance
Xiaoqi Shang

20 Assessing construct validity of interpreting aptitude tests from a unitary view: an example of retelling tests
Xinyuan Liu, Lei Mu, and Weiqing Xiao

21 Mapping research scope and topics in IS: an overview of doctoral dissertations in China’s mainland (2000– 2022)
Ying Wang

22 Constructing a cognitive diagnostic framework for interpreting competence assessment
Yang Yang and Xinyuan Liu

23 The history, current status, and prospects of Chinese–Portuguese interpreting in Macao
Lili Han and Yuqi Sun

24 Two tales of a city: simultaneous and consecutive interpreting in Hong Kong
Kaifusai Julaiti and Andrew K.F. Cheung

25 Status quo and issues of Chinese- Italian interpreting teaching in the Chinese mainland
Xuefeng Yu and Riccardo Moratto

26 Chinese interpreting in Italy: an overview
Ilaria Tipà and Riccardo Moratto

27 Structural differences in nominal phrases between Chinese and Spanish and their coping tactics in Chinese-to- Spanish simultaneous interpreting
Zhizhi Zhang and Pablo Encinas Arquero

28 Arabic language teaching and interpreter training in the context of rapidly evolving China–Arab relations
Zijian Guo and Guanda Xue

29 Computer-assisted interpreting in China
Meng Guo, Lili Han, and Defeng Li

30 Impact and implications of generative artificial intelligence on interpreting preparation
Zhi Li and Huashu Wang

31 Towards an ‘outward turn’ in Chinese interpreting studies: an attitudinal and conceptual change
Chonglong Gu

Index

Biography

Riccardo Moratto is Distinguished Professor (特聘教授) at the School of Foreign Studies (SFS), Tongji University, Director of the International Center for Intercultural Studies (ICIS) at Tongji University, Deputy Director of the Research Center for Chinese Discourse and Global Communication, AIIC member, expert member of the Translators Association of China (TAC), and member of numerous other associations. Professor Moratto is executive editor of the International Journal of Translation and Communication, editor-in-chief of Interpreting Studies for Shanghai Foreign Language Education Press (外教社), and general editor of Routledge Studies in East Asian Interpreting and Routledge Interdisciplinary and Transcultural Approaches to Chinese Literature. Professor Moratto is a Chartered Linguist and Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Linguists (FCIL), a hyperpolyglot, an international conference interpreter and renowned literary translator. Professor Moratto has published extensively in the fields of translation and interpreting studies and Chinese literature.

Cheng Zhan is Professor at the School of Foreign Languages, Sun Yat-sen University (Guangzhou, China). He obtained his MA in Translation and Comparative Cultural Studies from the University of Warwick, and his PhD in interpreting studies at Guangdong University of Foreign Studies. He is an active member of AIIC, and his research interests focus on the sociocultural aspects of interpreting, interpreter education, and audio description. He has published five monographs and ten interpreting textbooks, and co-edited two volumes for Routledge.

'This volume’s in-depth examination of issues specific to China and Chinese interpreting not only deepens the reader’s understanding of elements unique to China and Chinese interpreting, but also offers universal lessons in how pedagogical, institutional, and professional practices can (and must!) adapt to meet the needs of a rapidly changing world. I recommend this book to interpreter educators, researchers, and practicing professionals of all language combinations interested in deepening their knowledge of interpretation history, settings, modalities, education, assessment, and future trends.'

Laura Burian, Professor of Chinese/English Translation and Interpretation, Dean of Teaching, Learning, and Faculty Development, Former Dean of the Graduate School of Translation, Interpretation, and Language Education (GSTILE), Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey (MIIS)