Nicky Harman is still excited while talking about the Chinese literary works she wants to translate, even after nearly 15 years of translating Chinese writing into English. The British translator is ...

Run Chinese text through a translation website and the results tend to be messy, to put it mildly. You might get the gist of what's being said, but the sheer differences between languages usually lead ...

Xu Yuanchong, a translator who helped bridge Chinese and Western cultures by translating Chinese classics into English and French, and vice versa, died last week at the age of 100. Xu was well known ...

On the Calculation of Volume, Book Three (Faber, £12.99, 194pp) is by Solvej Balle and translated from Danish by Sophia Hersi Smith and Jennifer Russell. It is part of what is to become a series of ...