Literary ‘kung fu pandas’: the Chinese wuxia genre and why Westerners don’t know it (Part II)
Continuing from part one, found here, we examine insights from this article written by Audrey Wong. Juggling a demonstration of cultural awareness with the brevity of their translations, some wuxia translators have opted to translate proper nouns into their corresponding English terms while embedding as much cultural meaning within them as possible. This approach (see Part I …
