Conrad and the Chinese Reader: Confucius and “Amy Foster”

An Ning

doi:10.1353/cnd.2018.0000

Conrad and the Chinese Reader: Confucius and “Amy Foster”

Conradiana ◽

10.1353/cnd.2018.0000 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 50 (1) ◽

pp. 1-17

Author(s):

An Ning

Keyword(s):

Chinese Reader

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Beginning Chinese Reader. Parts I and II. By John de Francis. New Haven, Connecticut: Yale University Press, 1966. 1004 pp. n.p.

The Journal of Asian Studies ◽

10.2307/2051427 ◽

1967 ◽

Vol 26 (3) ◽

pp. 478-478

Author(s):

Moss Roberts

Keyword(s):

New Haven ◽

Yale University ◽

Chinese Reader

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Beginning Chinese Reader.

Pacific Affairs ◽

10.2307/2754473 ◽

1967 ◽

Vol 40 (3/4) ◽

pp. 378

Author(s):

Hedy H. Lee ◽

John DeFrancis

Keyword(s):

Chinese Reader

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Ideological positioning in news translation

Target ◽

10.1075/target.27.2.03pan ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 27 (2) ◽

pp. 215-237 ◽

Cited By ~ 16

Author(s):

Li Pan

Keyword(s):

Human Rights ◽

Discourse Analysis ◽

Critical Discourse Analysis ◽

Analytical Framework ◽

Critical Discourse ◽

Appraisal Theory ◽

Three Dimension ◽

Chinese Reader ◽

News Reports ◽

Rights Issue

This article investigates the Chinese translations of several English news reports on China’s human rights issue carried in Reference News, a Chinese authoritative state-run newspaper devoted to translating foreign reports for the Chinese reader, and aims to establish how evaluative resources are resorted to by the translators to facilitate ideologically different positioning in presenting events and identifying participants in the translated news. The translations are compared with their English source texts using Appraisal Theory (Martin and White 2005) as the micro analytical framework and Fairclough’s (1995a, 1995b) three-dimension model of Critical Discourse Analysis as the explanatory framework.

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