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…
Could Chinese translation disrupt anti-money laundering?
The USA v. Huawei and Meng Wanzhou prosecutions were highly controversial internationally, yet they were ultimately the result…
Communities of Practice in Chinese Legal Translation
Over the past several decades, social scientists have identified a concept essential to correct Chinese legal translations, known…
Chinese Translators’ Poor Motivation Explained
Translators of Chinese have famously low motivation to their career, resulting in widespread incompetence and low pay. The…
Squid Games and Chinese Translation Errors
When the Squid Games came out, its translation was widely criticized as being extremely inadequate, with some going…
Applying Chinese History in Contemporary Translations
One of the major difficulties in translating between Chinese and English is the lack of exact equivalent terms…