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| Acknowledgements | |
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| Introduction | |
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| History, theory and practice of Chinese translation | |
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| The rationale and structure of Thinking Chinese Translation | |
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| Translation as a process | |
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| Formal schema: decoding the marks on the page | |
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| Content schema: knowledge and experience | |
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| Implication and inference | |
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| The benefits of collaborative thinking | |
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| Reflective learning | |
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| Formal Schema - the framework: titles, sentences, punctuation and paragraphs | |
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| Headings and titles: signposting the text | |
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| Sentences: grammatical structures | |
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| Sentences: discoursal structures | |
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| Punctuation: loaded with meaning | |
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| Paragraphs: fleshing out the structure | |
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| Content schema: building knowledge, linguistic enhancement, preparation and collaboration | |
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| Text structure and background knowledge | |
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| Background knowledge of China | |
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| Growing the schema from small beginnings | |
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| Translating formulaic texts | |
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| Content, context and register in the formulaic text | |
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| Certificates | |
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| Texts without sentences | |
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| Dictionaries and glossaries | |
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| Chinese restaurant menu | |
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| Translating accounts | |
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| Translating technical and scientific texts | |
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| Technical translation: what is it? Who does it? | |
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| Formal schema in technical and scientific translation | |
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| Content schema: understanding the processes | |
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| Technical exercises | |
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| Medical translation: persuading, reporting, and diagnosing in the Western tradition | |
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| Public health information leaflets | |
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| Persuading the public: health leaflets | |
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| Translating medical reports | |
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| Patient's notes | |
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| Translating traditional Chinese medicine | |
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| The underlying principles of traditional Chinese medicine | |
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| The language of traditional Chinese medicine | |
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| Treatment methods: cupping | |
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| Textbook description of cancers | |
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| Translating for legal purposes | |
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| Variations in legal systems and language | |
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| Authority of legal translation and the responsibility of the translator | |
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| Legal texts as speech acts | |
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| Sentence structures | |
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| Verb forms | |
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| Terminology | |
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| Logical relations | |
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| Culture and ideology in legal translation | |
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| Domestic law translated for foreign visitors | |
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| International law: UN drafting | |
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| Analyzing bilingual laws | |
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| Translating domestic law on religion | |
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| Miscellaneous legal documents | |
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| Translator's statement | |
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| Report of legal proceedings | |
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| Witness statement | |
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| Translating the business world: trust and obligation | |
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| The world of business | |
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| MOU, MOA and contract | |
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| Tenses | |
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| Idiomatic usage | |
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| Complex sentences | |
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| Distinguishing the Parties | |
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| Translating a Memorandum of Agreement: proofreading and forensics | |
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| Translating a contract | |
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| Translating the nation | |
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| Addressing the nation | |
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| Translating ideology and power | |
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| China's special brand of power | |
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| The narrative of China's official discourse | |
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| Commissioning the translation | |
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| Addressing the people: the group, the individual and deixis in discourse | |
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| Choice of lexis | |
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| Metaphor and epithet | |
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| Numbers in Chinese official discourse | |
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| China addressing the world | |
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| Formality and courtesy | |
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| Friends and brothers | |
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| Inclusiveness | |
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| All things positive | |
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| All things great | |
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| Addressing the nation | |
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| Addressing the world | |
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| Addressing a developing nation | |
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| Author-translator collaboration: a case study of reportage | |
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| Working together: interview with Xinran and Nicky Harman | |
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| Case studies: translating autobiographical writing | |
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| Paratextual analysis: re-adjusting the formal schema for the foreign reader - Zhao Ziyang's diaries | |
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| Transforming paratextual features for the target audience | |
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| Translating the culture of the past: Zhang Xianliang's memoirs | |
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| Translating culture across time and space | |
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| Translating fiction | |
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| Narration | |
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| Translating Chengyu | |
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| Dialogue | |
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| Portraying character through dialogue | |
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| Expressing inner thoughts through dialogue | |
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| Relationship and interaction in dialogue | |
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| Insults | |
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| Description and depiction | |
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| Genre within genre | |
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| Translating description, emotion and reflection | |
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| Translating the frustration of youth | |
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| Translation of traditional poetry | |
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| Formal schema in Chinese poetry | |
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| Content schema in Chinese poetry | |
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| Trade-off in language structure | |
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| Translating the past: allusion and culture-specific items | |
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| Punctuation and space in poems | |
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| Singular or plural, masculine or feminine? | |
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| The influence of Ezra Pound | |
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| Translating a three-syllable shi | |
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| Translating a yuefu | |
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| Translating twentieth century poetry | |
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| Translating Guo Moruo: the new poetry of the self | |
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| Western cultural allusion in Guo Moruo's poetry | |
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| Personal pronouns and repetition | |
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| Discussion of Sky Dog source and target text | |
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| Translating the surrealism of Yang Lian | |
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| The Composer's Tower | |
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| Discussion of The Composer's Tower source and target text | |
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| Postscript | |
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| Glossary | |
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| Appendix | |
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| References | |
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| Index | |