Category Archives: Chinese Translation

24 Most Common Errors Committed by Chinese Students Who Major in Translation 翻译专业学生在汉译英中最常见的24个错误

Written by carlgene on 01/07/2019 — 1 Comment

24 Most Common Errors Committed by Chinese Students Who Major in Translation 翻译专业学生在汉译英中最常见的24个错误 by Carl Gene Fordham 傅君恺著 Note: This is just a rough guide that teachers and students of Chinese translation might find useful. There are of course more mistakes than this, but I am confident that this makes up the majority of errors […]

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English Translations of the 13 Chinese Classics 十三经英译大全

Written by carlgene on 01/06/2019 — 2 Comments

For anyone interested, the blog run by the Journal of Chinese Humanities at Shandong University has published a catalogue I collated of all the complete translations into English of the 13 Chinese classics (十三經). You can check it out here: English Translations of The 13 Chinese Classics: A Catalogue By Carl Gene Fordham It was […]

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What We Can Learn from Yang Wen’s “Lost in Translation”

Written by carlgene on 02/08/2017 — 4 Comments

I rarely do book reviews on this blog (in fact I think this is the first one!), but after coming across Yang Wen’s Lost in Translation: Common Errors in Chinese-English Translation (LifeRich Publishing, 2016) I felt compelled to share some of the more interesting parts of the book that might be useful for students. Yang […]

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