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Crowdsourcing Translation in China: Features and Implications

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Crowdsourcing translation is rising, with increasing attention from the translation profession and academia alike in the last decade. In China, while crowdsourcing has been extensively practiced in a wide range of translation projects from fansubbing to literary translation, from mass media to more specialized fields of science and sports, systematic reflections and studies are still desired. Focusing on cases from China, this chapter takes a close look at this new territory of translation and what it brings to the industry and translation studies in general.

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Li, W. (2015). Crowdsourcing Translation in China: Features and Implications. In: Sun, Y. (eds) Translation and Academic Journals. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137522092_10

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