Who has the final say? English translation of online lockdown writing Wuhan Diary.
As a testimony to the lockdown life in Wuhan caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, Fang Fang's Wuhan Diary received worldwide attention while triggering extensive controversies in China. Drawing on the concepts of agent and voice in translation studies, this article explores the contextual, paratextual a...
| Publicado en: | Perspectives: Studies in Translatology Vol. 31; no. 2; pp. 297 - 313 |
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