Translating Hard Chinese Legal Concepts Using Perdurantism
A concept known as perdurantism can help clear up a lot of translation-driven disputes about how to characterize…
How Overconfidence Fuels Legal Translation Service Malpractice
Legal translators often exhibit overconfidence usually associated with superheroes, which ultimately leads to severe mistakes that border on…
“Touching Fish” and In-house Chinese-English Translation
Following the trend of “overemployment,” machine translation tools are providing companies’ in-house employees working on Chinese-English translations with…
False conventions in Chinese Translation
In a way reminiscent of 19th-century sham science, modern-day translators of Chinese have collectively come up with pseudoscientific…
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…