Skin-deep translation may mislead
By Raymond Zhou | China Daily | Updated: 2008-05-10 07:40
To translate a word from one language to another is easy; to translate a context is hard.
The New York Times (NYT) carried an article in its May 4 book review that called Guo Jingming "the most successful writer in China". That must have pleased millions of Guo's fans, but it surely shocked a lot more people.
"How can NYT stoop so low?" many asked.
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