Chinese Editor Research Articles

Under the Publisher’s Undifferentiated Patronage: A Corpus-Based Case Study of Chinese Editorial Censorship on Translation about EU-Russia Relationship

ABSTRACT This article sets out to study how a publisher’s in-house editor in China censors the faithfully translated evaluation of the political stance of Russia and the European Union (“EU”) in a translated book on EU-Russia relationship based on a tagged corpus of the editor’s manuscript. The study finds that the editor tends to positively revise, via modification or deletion, evaluations of Russia’s stance and negatively of the EU’s stance. Specifically, the editor mostly understates the negativity of critical content about Russia’s domestic and bilateral stance to typically shift the author’s description of Russia as an authoritarian or aggressor, while overstating the negativity of the EU’s bilateral stance to augment its austerity towards Russia. Adulterating the faithful translation, the editorial censorship is supported by the undifferentiated patronage of the publisher as the project funder and the authorized censor in China where compulsory ideological censorship works covertly and effectively in the publishing industry.

Investigating translation style in English translations of Chinese editorials and commentaries from the Hong Kong Economic Journal: a corpus stylistic analysis

ABSTRACT Previous studies on translator’s or translation style have mostly focused on literary works. This study is a stylistic analysis of Chinese-language editorials and commentaries published in the Hong Kong Economic Journal (HKEJ) and their print and web versions of English translations. The study includes a corpus analysis of the original and translated news texts’ average sentence length, standardized type-token ratio, reporting verbs and high-frequency words. These are interpreted in relation to the translators’ personal attributes and the socio-cultural contexts to identify several major factors contributing to stylistic differences. This study finds that the news translation style is influenced by both source language linguistic features and target language conventions. The production of translated news texts involves the input of multiple agents, which is demonstrated in the collective traces of translation styles. The stylistic shifts between the original and translated news editorials and commentaries reflect the news outlet’s editorial stance and targeted readership. The empirical findings contribute to our understanding of the critical role stylistic features play in Chinese-to-English journalistic translation.

Family Structure and Subjective Well-being of Older Adults in China: Impacts of Grandparent Coresidence, Grandparenting, and Family Support

Two generations of investigative journalists are mixed together in Chinese editorial boards: those who started before 2010 and those who came after. The former contributed to the rise of investigative journalism in commercial media outlets in the 1990s and 2000s, and the latter have experienced the economic crisis of the traditional outlets and neo-authoritarianism since the rise to power of Xi Jinping. Interviews with 29 investigative journalists show that a transformation of professional values has occurred in the under 35 generation compared to their peers over 35, as the media ecosystem itself transformed in the 2010s. Changes in the journalists’ academic training and social origin have also contributed to this transformation of values, which ultimately serves Xi Jinping’s long-term authoritarian political agenda.

The Transformation of Professional Values in Chinese Investigative Journalism

Two generations of investigative journalists are mixed together in Chinese editorial boards: those who started before 2010 and those who came after. The former contributed to the rise of investigative journalism in commercial media outlets in the 1990s and 2000s, and the latter have experienced the economic crisis of the traditional outlets and neo-authoritarianism since the rise to power of Xi Jinping. Interviews with 29 investigative journalists show that a transformation of professional values has occurred in the under 35 generation compared to their peers over 35, as the media ecosystem itself transformed in the 2010s. Changes in the journalists’ academic training and social origin have also contributed to this transformation of values, which ultimately serves Xi Jinping’s long-term authoritarian political agenda.

한·중 정치류 신문 사설의 ‘개입’ 대조 연구

한·중 정치류 신문 사설의 ‘개입’ 대조 연구

An integrated study of visual metaphors in Chinese editorial cartoons

AbstractConceptual metaphor theory highlights that metaphor is a matter of thinking. This assumption indicates that metaphors exist not only in language, but also in other modes. This study examines uses of visual and visual-verbal metaphors in 50 Chinese editorial cartoons conceptualizing serious haze problem, with the intention of eliciting implicit meaning conveyed by visual signs alone or together with verbal texts. Both conceptual and critical discourse analysis of the metaphors are conducted. The study finds that the way a metaphor is realized visually and verbally in a cartoon determines the features mapped onto the topic, and further implicitly expresses a critical stance toward the topic under discussion. The metaphors in the cartoons evoke a general understanding of haze problem by activating the war scenario and familiar cultural or social context in viewers. It is found in this corpus that visual fusion and visual replacement are the most frequent kinds of visual metaphors. The study further affirms that visual metaphors are better in conveying rich and implicit conceptual and affective meaning, and can be direct manifestation of the conceptual metaphor without the mediation of language. In sum the study suggests the need for an integrated approach to visual metaphoric representation in multimodal analysis.

Negotiations and Asymmetric Games in Chinese Editorial Departments: The Search for Editorial Autonomy by Journalists of Dongfang Zaobao and

At the beginning of the twenty-first century, journalism in China was marked by a breakthrough in investigative journalism that resulted from a particular conjuncture: the central government’s wish to control local authorities through surveillance by the media, coupled with the desire of a new generation of journalists to carry out investigations in a professional manner. Between 2003 and 2016, a group of journalists in Shanghai running the daily paper Dongfang Zaobao and then the news site Pengpai bore witness to this period. A series of interviews with these journalists enabled us to understand their strategy over the long term and identify a phase of negotiations with the authorities that led to the creation of media and a period of asymmetric game-playing to produce information. It emerged that although the journalists accumulated major successes in matters of investigation, the authorities ultimately always curtailed editorial freedom.

A Study on the Role and Qualification of Chinese Editorial Editors

본 연구의 목적은 중국 출판 편집인의 역할을 규명한 후 이를 바탕으로 바람직한 편집자를 양성하는 방안을 모색하는데 있다. 중국 출판 편집인이 업무수행 역할 유형은 세 가지 나타나는데 이를 ‘ 개발자’, ‘전파자’, ‘공유자’로 명명할 수 있다. 중국 출판 편집자가 갖추어야할 자질은 두 가지로 요구된다. 즉 이는 정신적인 측면과 기술적인 측면의 자질이다. 먼저 정신적 인 측면의 자질로는 첫째, 강렬한 책임 의식, 둘째, 고상한 문화 감성의 풍부성, 셋째, 평온한 심리 상태 넷째, 직무수행의 윤리의식 함양 등이다. 편집자가 갖추어야할 기술적 자질로는 먼저 다양한 편집 지식 보유 둘째, 체계적인 훈련과정을 통해 습득한 전문성 셋째, 품격 있는 글쓰기 능력보유 넷째, 출판 편집에 대한 전문적인 능력 보유 등이다. 중국 출판업계가안고 있는 콘텐츠 및 편집기술상의 한계점 즉 콘텐츠 부족과 중복되는 내용들, 기술 혁신의 부재, 편집교정 품질의 저하, 과다한 편집과정에서의 오류, 인쇄 장정의 낙후, 신기술 도입의 소극성 등-은 정규 교육과정을통해 습득한 전문성과 출판편집업무에 관한 높은 열의와 책임감을 보유한 출판편집인을 양성하는 과정을 통해서 해소될 전망이다.

The application of ergative verbs to avoid accusations in the translation of Chinese editorials into English

AbstractThe use of ergative verbs results in the agent being backgrounded in an English sentence, and it is often used in the media together with other means such as the use of intransitive verbs, passives, and nominalized nouns to achieve the pragmatic purpose of accusation avoidance. A great deal of research has been done on the role of ergative verbs in media discourse in English as well as the acquisition of ergative verbs by learners of English as a Foreign Language (EFL). However, it remains unclear how EFL Chinese learners of advanced levels of competence, such as postgraduates of translation majors and professional translators, use ergative verbs when translating newspaper editorials from Chinese into English. Nor is it clear whether learners have acquired the requisite knowledge of ergative verbs in order to use them effectively so as to avoid blaming the agent of an action or process in translation. This study recruited 30 native Chinese-speaking translators who fell into three categories: undergraduate translators, graduate translators, and professional translators. A small parallel translation corpus was built, which consisted of 150 English translations of 5 Chinese editorials produced by the translators. Accusation-avoidance expressions in the source text and their translations were then extracted and input into an SPSS spreadsheet. The results show that the use of ergative verbs in translations by undergraduate translators is significantly higher than in translations by graduate and professional translators in terms of quantity. The results of the study may be useful for translation teaching and learning.

Introduction

This issue contains three research articles and one obituary, which of them includes “Self-Initiated Expatriates: Taiwanese Migrant Professionals in China’s Global Cities” by Jianbang Deng, “Cultural Adaptation of Taiwanese Female Marriage Migrants in Hong Kong” by Lan-Hung Nora Chiang and Chia-Yuan Huang, “Settling Across the Strait of Taiwan under Japanese Colonialism (1895–1945)” by Leo Douw, and his another paper “Arif Dirlik (1940–2017) Obituary.” These four papers were invited to submit to the Translocal Chinese editorial board after a small conference entitling “Research on Taiwanese Overseas Qiaomin (台灣海外僑民之研究)” at Soochow University on 19 January 2018, but only two of them was accepted after blind peer review. Douw’s articles later joined this issue, which constructs a significantly common topic for the three research papers—Taiwanese Migration to Mainland China in Different Ages. Deng’s paper explores how about the transformation of Taiwanese migrants into self-initiated expatriates in China’s global cities. Chiang and Huang explain how successful the Taiwanese female marriage migrants in Hong Kong despite their ever much difficulties. Douw tells the distinct identities between Registered Taiwanese (台灣籍民) in China and Taiwanese Huaqiao (台灣華僑) in Taiwan.

한국어 논증적 글쓰기 교육을 위한 한·중 신문 사설 개입 대조 연구

This study aims to present the pedagogic implications about Korean Argumentative Writing Education for CKLs through contrasting the engagement in the editorials of Korean and Chinese. So we have selected 100 piece(Korean editorials 50, Chinese editorials 50)editorials from The Chosun Ilbo, The The JoongAng Ilbo and People’s Daily, Guang Ming Daily which are the representative newspapers of Korea and China. We extracted the engagement according to the Appraisal Theory which was developed by Martin & White(2005) and the context. Then we did a t-text and as a result, the total of monogloss and heterogloss didn’t have a statistically significant difference and both Korean and Chinese editorials have used more heterogloss than monogloss. In the dialogic expansion, we found that the use of possibility, entertain, attribution, distance and the total of dialogic expansion had a statistically significant difference and the use of personal opinion and acknowledge didn’t have a statistically significant difference. Though the average we can know that the Korean editorials used more possibility, entertain, attribution, distance than the Chinese editorials. And in the dialogic contraction we found that the use of disclaim, deny, counter, proclaim, concur, pronounce and the total of dialogic contraction all had a statistically significant difference but except the endorsement. Though on the average we can see that the Korean editorials used more disclaim, deny, counter than Chinese editorials but Chinese editorials used more proclaim, concur, pronounce than Korean editorials. It may suggest that in the Korean editorials expected rebuts were more taken into account and in the Chinese editorials one-sided argument was more preferred. Accordingly, when we teach Korean argumentative writing to CKLs we may need to tell them to use entertain, attribution, disclaim properly to take the expected rebuts into account and use less concur and pronounce. (Seoul National University)

A Contrastive Study of Engagement in Korean and Chinese Editorials

A Contrastive Study of Engagement in Korean and Chinese Editorials

Pictorial-verbal metaphors in Chinese editorial cartoons on food safety

Based on a corpus of 120 cartoons collected from the website http://cartoon.chinadaily.com.cn, this study attempts to give an account of pictorial-verbal metaphors in Chinese editorial cartoons on food safety from the perspective of Conceptual Metaphor Theory and multimodal metaphor theory. The findings are as follows: (1) Four major mode configuration patterns are observed: cross-modal mapping, mono-modal mapping, multimodal mapping and implied mapping. (2) The pictorial-verbal metaphors centre around five major target domains: unsafe food, consumer, producer/seller, supervision authority and food safety law/standard. (3) A large number of scenario metaphors are observed in the data, which can be further divided into those that are cross-culturally perceivable and those that are heavily embedded in Chinese culture. The working mechanism of scenario metaphors can be accounted for by Conceptual Blending Theory. The study helps delineate the food safety situation that we are facing in China from a metaphorical perspective. It also extends the application of multimodal metaphor theory to a Chinese context and contributes to the refinement of the theory.

Journal of Chinese Tax and Policy Editorial

Journal of Chinese Tax and Policy Editorial