translation

Having published 10,000 translations a year for nine consecutive years and offering a more diversified translation market fueled by increased international communications, China can now claim to be a translation giant. Many translation experts, however, recently expressed concern over the unsatisfactory level of literary and day-to-day practical translations, and said China's translation industry is "big but not strong." According to the China Bibliographic Library, China had published 28,500 kinds of translated works between 1978 and 1990, while the number spiked to 94,400 between 1995 and 2003. But, Ren Jisheng, an official with the Publishers Association of China, said, "Substandard translation is still a headache for translators of foreign literature." Some publishers have flocked to the profitable area of retranslation of foreign literary works. But the finished products are usually far from satisfactory. Some even commit plagiarism in the deadline rush.