Leo Tak-hung Chan

List of John Benjamins publications in which Leo Tak-hung Chan is involved.

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Twentieth-Century Chinese Translation Theory: Modes, issues and debates

Leo Tak-hung Chan

Past attempts at writing a history of Chinese translation theory have been bedeviled by a chronological approach, which often forces the writer to provide no more than a list of important theories and theorists over the centuries. Or they have stretched out to almost every aspect related to… read more

[Benjamins Translation Library, 51] 2004. xvi, 277 pp.

Chan, Leo Tak-hung and Jindan Ni 2025 Canonizing Arthur Waley, rewriting Murasaki Shikibu: The Japanese back-translations of Waley’s The Tale of Genji Target 37:3, pp. 360–383 | Article

This article examines the two Japanese back-translations of Arthur Waley’s English rendition (1925–1933) of Murasaki Shikibu’s 源氏物語 Genji monogatari ‘The tale of Genji’ to underscore the complexities of back-translation as process and product. The back-translations by Samata Hideki… read more

Chan, Leo Tak-hung 2019 Chapter 4. Contemporary views of translation in China A World Atlas of Translation, Gambier, Yves and Ubaldo Stecconi (eds.), pp. 81–104 | Chapter

After a brief summary of the classical theories, this report discusses contemporary notions of translation in China with reference to their international and national dimensions. The first section deals with recent conceptualizations that have merged in response to China’s rise as an economic… read more

Chan, Leo Tak-hung 2016 Beyond non-translation and “self-translation”: English as lingua academica in China Translation and Interpreting Studies 11:2, pp. 152–176 | Article

For non-Anglophone scholars, there are essentially three language options, leading to: (1) untranslated publications in languages other than English; (2) research written in English, although some kind of “internal translation” has occurred to the author concerned; and (3) research translated… read more

Chan, Leo Tak-hung and Fung-ming Christy Liu 2013 An Empirical Study of the Perceived Benefits of Finalyear Translation Projects to Undergraduate Translation Students FORUM 11:2, pp. 19–41 | Article

Abstract/Résumé Toutes les universités d’état à Hong Kong proposant des cursus de niveau pré-licence en traduction exigent que leurs étudiants montent un projet en traduction, généralement durant leur dernière année d’étude. Ce type de cursus est unique car la formation est dispensée de manière… read more

Chan, Leo Tak-hung 1999 Translation and Creation: Readings of Western Literature in early Modern China, 1840-1918 Babel 45:2, pp. 188–192 | Miscellaneous

Chan, Leo Tak-hung 1998 Does the Narrator Get Translated Into Chinese? The Literary-Critical Approach to the Evaluation of Translated Fiction Babel 44:1, pp. 46–64 | Article

Abstract The translation of narrative fiction, unlike that of poetry and drama, has received little critical attention, because it has not been deemed distinctive enough to merit study in its own right. The purpose of the article is to define the literary-critical approach to evaluating translated… read more

Chan, Leo Tak-hung 1998 LIberal versions: late Qing approaches to translating aesop’s fables Translation and Creation: Readings of Western Literature in Early Modern China, 1840–1918, Pollard, David E. (ed.), pp. 57–78 | Article

Chan, Leo Tak-hung 1997 The impressionistic approach to translation theorizing, or: Twentieth-century Chinese ideas of translation htrough the western looking-glass Translation as Intercultural Communication: Selected papers from the EST Congress, Prague 1995, Snell-Hornby, Mary, Zuzana Jettmarová and Klaus Kaindl (eds.), pp. 57–66 | Article