Michael Sharkey

List of John Benjamins publications in which Michael Sharkey is involved.

Articles

Pan, Wenguo 2025 Translating into/out of one’s mother tongue: On the feasibility of translating Chinese classics into English by native Chinese translators Translation and Interpreting Studies 20:2, pp. 302–316 | Translation

This paper is a critical response to the assertion that translation of Chinese classics into English can only be done by translators who are native speakers of English rather than Chinese, as maintained by scholars such as A. C. Graham. It analyses the three main reasons given to support that… read more

Sharkey, Michael 2025 Setting the stage for ‘going global’: Pan Wenguo and the politics of directionality in China Translation and Interpreting Studies 20:2, pp. 296–301 | Introduction

In his polemical article “Translating into/out of one’s mother tongue: On the feasibility of translating Chinese classics into English by native Chinese translators,” Chinese scholar Pan Wenguo engages critically with the argument advanced by British sinologist A. C. Graham that “we can hardly… read more