It is estimated that more than 90% of the 6,000 or so languages spoken in the world today
will become extinct during the next 100 years. 2 The global situation, where some 96% of …

Translation has a long history in China. Down the centuries translators, interpreters,
Buddhist monks, Jesuit priests, Protestant missionaries, writers, historians, linguists, and …

In historical times Vietnamese speakers have used three main forms of written language:
Han, commonly called Classical Chinese; Nom, which transcribes vernacular words with …

In the late Qing, newly translated Chinese terms invented by the Japanese and imported into
China exerted a tremendous cultural influence. Facing this invasion, Chinese officials and …

China has a long tradition in translation studies. As the earliest records show, sporadic
translation activities began as early as the eleventh century BC, though serious …

The history of China, as any history, is a story of and in translation. Translating Early Modern
China tells the story of translation in China to and from non-European languages and Latin …

Keywords. Chinese translation theory, Chinese tradition, Chineseness, nonChineseness,
Dialectic, Ethnoconvergence. The end of the Cultural Revolution (1966-1976) in China …

Translation has a long history in China. Down the centuries translators, interpreters,
Buddhist monks, Jesuit priests, Protestant missionaries, writers, historians, linguists, and …

Chinese translation history is perhaps unique in two ways:(1) it has the longest extant record
of continuous activities, covering some three thousand years;(2) it shows that China as host …

In his monumental study After Babel: Aspects of Language and Translation, George Steiner
(1975: 31) identifies communication across time and space as the key constitutive aspects of …