Three Kinds of Budget in Legal Translation
An open secret about legal translation services is that they are subject to not one, but rather three…
The impact of involution on Chinese-English translation quality
Involution, the “folding inward” of social norms, has caused a curious phenomenon: native English-speaking newcomers to the Chinese-English…
Legal English Books for Chinese-English Translators?
When I ask Chinese-English translators what kind of sources they use to learn English for legal contexts,…
Why Using Mandarin Chinese Should be Encouraged
China currently has a huge shortage of translators capable of rendering writing into perfect native English. The one…
Subset errors are breaking most Chinese Legal Translations
Correct legal translation requires skillfully utilizing the concept of a subset, which lawyers will remember fondly from the…
Unethical Labor Practices used in Chinese Translation
Unethical labor practices dominate the industry because the majority of translation today is not provided by translators directly…
Queuing theory explains problems with legal translation quality
Legal translation quality is being routinely wrecked with risks to clients by ignorance of a common business principle…
Language Families: Why Chinese to English Translation is so Difficult
The Chinese to English language pair is one of the hardest to translate between. This is in part…
China’s international ambitions failing due to translator groupthink
Groupthink, the tendency for people to follow others’ lead like sheep, explains why Chinese companies’ international launches are…
The maze of syntax translations in legal documents
Readers of Chinese legal translations usually have to navigate a maze of confusing direct translations of Chinese syntactic…