Why we need more translated children’s books from China: Addressing the one-way street of translation in the United States

Goldsmith, Annette Y.; Huang, Ke

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Why we need more translated children’s books from China: Addressing the one-way street of translation in the United States

Author(s)

• Goldsmith, Annette Y.
• Huang, Ke

Issue Date

2017

Keyword(s)

• Children’s books in translation
• Content analysis
• Radical change theory
• Mildred L. Batchelder Award
• Children’s books - China

Abstract

Startlingly few children’s books published in the United States are translations of books that originate in other countries. Even fewer merit consideration for the Mildred L. Batchelder Award, which recognizes the best translated children’s book in the U.S. The Batchelder committee typically selects from a field of perhaps 30 titles dominated by European languages. Winners or honor books from China or other countries with Chinese as the majority or co-official language are rare. One book by internationally famous Chinese author Cao Wenxuan is finally being published in English in the U.S., yet publishers in mainland China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan regularly publish translations of U.S. children’s books. The proposed study will employ Radical Change theory and content analysis to examine the translations that do exist. Efforts to address the imbalance through global collaboration will be discussed. Findings will include a bibliography of translations and a description of new advocacy groups.

Publisher

iSchools

Series/Report Name or Number

iConference 2017 Proceedings

Type of Resource

text

Language

en

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Copyright 2017 Annette Y. Goldsmith and Ke Huang

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