British literary translator Julia Lovell says the Chinese literary scene is open to foreign influences and interests. British literary translator Julia Lovell had her eureka moment some 15 years ago, ...
Nicky Harman is still excited while talking about the Chinese literary works she wants to translate, even after nearly 15 years of translating Chinese writing into English. The British translator is ...
At the seventh International Sinologist Conference on Translating Chinese Literature that opened on Monday in Nanjing, East China's Jiangsu Province, Chinese writer Shi Yifeng once again met with his ...
On the Calculation of Volume, Book Three (Faber, £12.99, 194pp) is by Solvej Balle and translated from Danish by Sophia Hersi Smith and Jennifer Russell. It is part of what is to become a series of ...
Run Chinese text through a translation website and the results tend to be messy, to put it mildly. You might get the gist of what's being said, but the sheer differences between languages usually lead ...
At an event in China, Microsoft Research chief Rick Rashid has demonstrated a real-time English-to-Mandarin speech-to-speech translation engine. Not only is the translation very accurate, but the ...
Editor's note: Sidney Shapiro, a famous U.S.-born Chinese translator and author (whose translations includes the landmark "The Outlaws of the Marsh") and one of the very few Westerners to gain Chinese ...