Chinese Literary Translation

Chinese Literary translation

Chinese Literary translation is not so much an effort to provide a verbatim, word-for-word translation of the source text; but rather an attempt to convey the author's original message, and to evoke the same mood and flair of the original narrative to a foreign audience. Besides having a deep knowledge of the foreign languages and cultures involved, literary translators are more often than not also creative writers and literature experts.

Chinese Literary translators translate novels, short stories, plays, poems and the like; encompassing both classical and contemporary works. In recent years, the chinese literary translation field has regularly included the film and theatre industries, adding film and theatre subtitling and dubbing to their repertoire.