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Chinese to English: Beijing City Middle Schools' Upper Middle Schools' Political Studies Revision
Source text - Chinese Beijing Educational Institute, Educational Research Department, "Beijing City Middle Schools' Upper Middle Schools' Political Studies Revision - Teaching Reference Book", Beijing Publishing House, Beijing, 1982
Translation - English Table of Contents:
Political Economy
1 Learn a little about political economy
Chinese to English: Beijing City Middle Schools' History Revision
Source text - Chinese Beijing Educational Institute, Educational Research Department, Beijing City Middle Schools' History Revision - Teaching Reference Book, Beijing Publishing House, Beijing, 1983
Translation - English Table of Contents:
Contemporary History
1 The Great October Revolution
2 The Imperialists' Versailles-Washington arrangement
3 Post-War world revolutionary movements and national liberation movements
4 Important capitalist countries after the War
5 The Soviet Union's socialist revolutionary and construction achievements
6 The economic and political crises in the capitalist world.
7 National liberation movements of the 1930s and the struggle against Fascism
8 Europe on the Eve of the Second World War
9 The Second World War
Chinese to English: Beijing City Middle Schools Geography Revision
Source text - Chinese Beijing Educational Institute Education Research Department, Beijing City Middle Schools Geography Revision Educational Reference Book, Beijing Publishing House, Beijing, 1984
Translation - English Table of Contents:
The Geography of China
1 Land and people
2 Relief
3 Climate
4 Rivers
5 The North-East
6 Middle and Lower Yellow River
7 Middle and Lower Yangtse River
8 The Southern Coastal region
9 The South-West
10 Qinghai and Tibet
11 Xinjiang
12 The Northern Interior
13 Agriculture, forestry and livestock raising
14 Mining and industry
15 Rail transportation and ports
Man and the Geographic Environment (introduction)
Chinese to English: Native Land
Source text - Chinese Wang Yong Kuan et al., Native land, China Youth Press, Beijing, 1983
Translation - English Table of Contents
The charming and beautiful land:
The vast land
The variegated land forms
The gentle climate
The multitudinous rivers
The extensive coastline
The bounteous oceans
The rich mineral reserves
The rare animals
The luxuriant plants
The beautiful scenery
The age-old history:
A brief discussion of four thousand years
The Banpo relics and Yangshao culture
Yellow Emperor - Huaxia - Zhongguo
Qinshihuang unifies China
Hanwudi and the Han Empire
Zhang Qian and "The Silk Route"
"What is separated must come together again"
The great mixing of the peoples of the Yellow River Basin
Princess Wencheng goes to Tibet
Xuan Zang obtains the Scriptures
Jian Zhen crosses the Eastern Sea
Tang Dynasty Chang'an
From Genghis Khan to Kubilai
Qi Jiguang fights off the Japanese pirates
Kangxi's reunification undertaking
The magnificent ancient culture:
China's ancient achievements in science and technology
Intensive agriculture
The jewel in the crown of ancient water conservancy construction - the Dujiang Weir
An exceptional engineering feat in mankind's architectural history - the Great Wall
The growth and flourishing of ancient Chinese shipbuilding
China's ancient smelting and forging technology
A tour of China's ancient cultural arts
The splendid multi-faceted ancient myths and legends
The patriotic poet Qu Yuan
The brilliant and magnificent Tang Dynasty poetry
Yuan poetic dramas set to music and the world-famous cultural figure Guan Hanqing
Ming and Qing fiction
Treasurehouses of Eastern art - China's four great grottoes
Superb arts and crafts
Heartstopping Chinese acrobatics
The last one hundred years of heroic struggle:
The Eighty Year Period
Lin Zexu burns opium at Humen
Deng Shichang in the Sino-Japanese naval war
How the new China came into being
The all-conquering iron river
The superior socialist structure:
A huge change for the Oroqen
The 10,000 li Shenzhou record of water control
Chinese to English: Required Reading for Primary School Students
Source text - Chinese He Bijun (ed), Required Reading for Primary School Students, May 1982, Hunan Scientific and Technical Publishing House, Changsha
Translation - English Table of Contents: Language; Natural Science; Diligently study history and geography
Chinese to English: Chinese History Stories and Four Character Sayings
Source text - Chinese Lin Han Da ed., Stories from the Eastern Han, China Children and Young People's Press, Beijing, 1983
Zhu Zhongyu, Chinese History Stories - Southern Song and Jin, China Children's and Young People's Press, Beijing, 1982
Qiu Shusen, Chinese History Stories - Yuan, China Children's and Young People's Press, Beijing, 1983
Liu Quan, Chinese History Stories: Ming Dynasty, First Part, China Young People's and Children's Press, Beijing, 1983
Liu De Hong, Chinese History Stories: Modern Times - Part One, China Children and Young People's Press, Beijing, 1983
Wu Yu Cheng, The Stories behind Four-Character Sayings, China Children and Young People's Press, Beijing, 1984
Translation - English Eastern Han - Renouncing the writing brush for the sword
Eastern Han - Obtaining the Sutras and Seeking the Buddha
Eastern Han - Covet Sichuan after taking Gansu
Postscript
Southern Song and Jin - "Gargling Jade" and "Heartbroken" (Li Qing Zhao and Zhu Shu Zhen)
Southern Song and Jin - Lou Shou draws the "Ploughing and Weaving Plates"
Yuan - The Death of Genghis Khan
Yuan - State Tutor 'Phags-pa
Yuan - Marco Polo goes to China
Ming - Tsong-kha-pa founds the Yellow Sect
Modern - Zuo Zong Tang takes back Xinjiang
Chengyu - Tou bi cong rong (Renouncing the writing brush to take up the sword)
Chengyu - Bu ru hu xue, yan de hu zi (If we don't go into the tiger's den, how can we get the tiger's whelps)
Chengyu - "Delusions of grandeur"
Chengyu - Covet Sichuan after taking Gansu
Chinese to English: Chinese Teaching In New Zealand
Source text - Chinese ACENZ, Chinese Newsletter of the National Chinese Language Advisor and New Zealand Chinese Language Association, Vol. 5 No. 3 (September, 2000), pp. 30-33
Translation - English Chinese Teaching In New Zealand
Chinese to English: Selected Children's Folk Stories
Source text - Chinese Dong Sen, Xiao Li, eds., Folk Literature Office, Literature Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Selected Children's Folk Stories, Beijing Publishing House, Beijing, 1983
Translation - English To Young Readers
Frog Girl
Nine Springs Spring
Chinese to English: Composition Guide for Foreign Students of Chinese
Source text - Chinese Zhu Bing Yao ed., Composition Guide for Foreign Students of Chinese, Sinolingua, Beijing, 1997
Translation - English Contents
1 Letters
3 Stories
4 Narratives describing an event
5 Narratives describing a person
6 Lyric prose
7 Travel notes
8 Expository writing
10 Discussions
Chinese to English: Vocabulary, Beijing Languages Institute
Source text - Chinese Jin Shaozhi, Vocabulary, Beijing Languages Institute, November 1983 pp1-3
Translation - English Table of Contents
Chinese to English: Music Appreciation Handbook
Source text - Chinese Wang Qin Yan et al ed., Music Appreciation Handbook, Shanghai Literature and Art Publishing House, Shanghai, 1983
Translation - English Table of Contents
How to Appreciate Music
Appreciating Vocal Music:
Chinese modern and contemporary songs
Chinese folk songs
Chinese large-scale vocal works
Appreciating Opera and Ballet Music:
Operas Chinese
Baimaonü (White-haired Girl), 1943, Ma Ke, Zhang Lu, Qu Wei, Huan Zhi, Xiang Yu, Chen Zi, and Liu Chi
Ballets Chinese
Baimaonü (White-Haired Girl) 1964, Yan Jin Xuan
Silu Huayu (Silk Route Flowers and Rain) 1979, Han Zhong Cai, Hu Yan, Jiao Kai
Foreign Songs
Little Worm
The Old Squad Leader
Trepak
Little star, where are you?
Lovely Savishna
Yeliaomushenka's Cradle-song
The Song of the Flea
Foreign Piano Music:
Pictures at an Exhibition
Foreign Orchestral Music:
Night at Bare Mountain
Foreign Opera:
Boris Godunov (four act opera)
Chinese composers:
He Luting, Huang Zi, Xian Xinghai, Lü Ji, Nie Er, Liang
Hanguang, Zheng Lucheng, Ge Yan, Huang Zhun
Source text - Chinese Cartographical Publishing House, China Atlas, Cartographical Publishing House, Beijing, 1981
Translation - English 4 Beijing City, Tianjin City
5 Hebei Province
6 Shanxi Province
7 The Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region
8 Heilongjiang Province
9 Jilin Province
10 Liaoning Province
11 Shandong Province
12 Jiangsu Province
13 The Shanghai-Ningbo-Hangzhou Region
14 Anhui Province
15 Zhejiang Province
16 Jiangxi Province
17 Fujian Province
18 Taiwan Province
19 He'nan Province
20 Hubei Province
21 Hu'nan Province
22 Guangdong Province
23 South China Sea Islands, Pearl River Delta
24 The Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region
25 Shaanxi Province
26 The Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region
27 Gansu Province
28 Qinghai Province
29 The Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region
30 Sichuan Province
31 The Chengdu-Chongqing Region
32 Guizhou Province
33 Yunnan Province
34 The Tibet Autonomous Region
Chinese to English: Tang Poetry Connoisseur's Encyclopedia
Source text - Chinese Xiao Di Fei, Cheng Qian Fan, et al. ed., Tang Poetry Connoisseur's Encyclopedia, Shanghai Dictionary Publishing House, Shanghai, 1983
Translation - English 1)Wang Chang Ling - Two Beyond the Frontier Poems (Poem One) - 'In Qin times the bright moon'
2)Du Fu - Pavilion Night - 'Year end moon and sun'
Chinese to English: Shandong Weihai Tourism Information
Source text - Chinese Weihai Tourism Information Net (at www.weihai.cn)
Shandong Tourism Information Net (at www.sdta.gov.cn)
Tourism Area Guide
Tiechashan (Chashan)
Shidao Tourist Area
Shandong Tourism Information Centre, "sdta.gov.cn/index/sdta2002/map/weihai", Copyright 2002
Chinese to English: Choice Selection of Hunan Cuisine (Xiangcai Jijing)
Source text - Chinese Shi Yin Xiang ed., Choice Selection of Hunan Cuisine (Xiangcai Jijing), Hunan Science and Technology Publishing House, Changsha, 1982
Translation - English Table of Contents:
Basics of Cooking
Chapter 1 Culinary raw materials
Section 1 Types of raw materials
1 Plant produce
2 Animal produce
3 Mineral products
Section 2 Inspection and selection of produce
1 Inspection and selection of produce - elementary knowledge
2 The standards and methods of inspection and selection for several major types
of produce
1 Plant produce
2 Animal produce
Domestic animals and poultry
Chinese to English: Selected Rhyme-Prose and Prose Poems through the Ages
Source text - Chinese Liu Zhen Xiang, Li Fang Chen, notes, Chen Fang Lin, ed., "Selected Rhyme-Prose and Prose Poems through the Ages", Hunan People's Publishing House, Changsha, 1984
Translation - English Preface
Su Shi
Chinese to English: Gansu Tourist Guide
Source text - Chinese Duan Deyi, Qi Baoling, Li Yingrui eds., Gansu Tourist Guide, 1982, China Tourism Publishing House, Beijing
Translation - English Table of Contents
Editors’ Foreword
1 The Silk Route within Gansu Province
2 A general survey of Gansu Province
3 Scenic and historic sites:
Dunhuang’s Mogao Grottoes, Maijishan Grottoes, Bingling Monastery Grottoes, Jiayuguan, Anxi’s Yulin Grottoes, Wuwei’s Tangut (Western Xia) Stele, Zhangye’s Great Buddha Monastery, Zhangye’s Wooden Pagoda, Wuwei’s Kumarajiva Monastery Pagoda, Wuwei’s bronze galloping horse, Labuleng Lamasery, Wenxian’s Heaven Lake, Gansu ancient painted pottery, Gansu’s ancient Great Wall ruins, Pingliang’s Kongtong Mountain
4 Revolutionary Sites:
Lanzhou’s Eighth Route Army Office, Gaotai Revolutionary Martyrs’
Cemetery
5 Lanzhou City:
Five Springs Hill, White Pagoda Hill, Number One Yellow River Bridge, Yongdeng County’s Han Dynasty Great Wall, Liujia Gorge Hydroelectric Power Station, Lanzhou leather rafts, Xinglong Mountain, Irrigation waterwheels
6 Tianshui City:
Tianshui’s Fuxi Temple, Nanguo Monastery, Li Guang's Tomb
7 Jiuquan:
Jiuquan County
Eastern Jin Mural Tomb
8 Dunhuang:
The Singing Sand Dunes and the Crescent Moon Spring
The “Two Pass” Ruins
9 Gansu’s Ethnic Minorities:
Yugur Nationality, Bao’an Nationality, Dongxiang Nationality
10 Gansu’s Arts and Crafts:
A fine item for the study - Tao inkstones, Jiuquan’s luminous goblets
Tianshui’s carved lacquerware
11 Culture and art:
Gansu Province Museum, Dunhuang Museum, Gansu Province Song and Dance Ensemble, Gansu Province Modern Drama Company, Gansu Province Long Opera Company, Lianhuashan Hua'er Festival
12 Gansu’s Special Local Products:
Lanzhou’s honeydew melons, Lanzhou’s roses, Lanzhou’s lilies, Lanzhou’s winter pears, Lanzhou’s hookah tobacco, black melon seeds, “Sanhegong” and its crystal cakes, Huaniu apples, hair plant, brake (bracken fern), vetches, day lilies, Longnan chunjiu (gaoliang spirit), cross-bred yaks, ermao qiupi (lambskins from Tan sheep), marmot furs, Chinese angelica, Chinese rhubarb, dangshen herb, root of the membranous milk vetch, made-up Chinese medicines
13 Gansu’s rare and special wildlife
Argali (wild sheep), golden monkey (snub-nosed monkey), giant panda, takin (antelope), wild camels, camels – ships of the desert, wild yaks, giant salamander
14 Famous dishes and local delicacies
Lanzhou roast suckling pig, Gaosan braised pork seasoned with soy sauce, Inlaid Goldfish with hair plant (chicken), Hundred Flowers whole chicken, sweet and sour carp, hot candied potatoes, deep-fried sheep's tail (fried cake), mabaozi beef noodles, Gaodan niangpi, Jiangshui noodles, Yuebinlou Restaurant, Jingyanglou Restaurant
Chinese to English: The Historical Records
Source text - Chinese Liu Lian Li, Chen Zhuo et al, Stories from "The Historical Records" (adapted), Beijing Languages Institute, Beijing, 1981
Translation - English Several stories of General Li Guang
Chinese to English: Beekeeping Handbook
Source text - Chinese Jiangxi Province Apicultural Research Institute ed., Beekeeping Handbook, Agricultural Publishing House, Beijing, 1983
Translation - English Pomegranate (Punica granatum)
Black pine (Pinus thunbergii)
Crops, vegetables and fruit trees (Table of Contents)
Forestry Science: Tree Varieties (Table of Contents)
Aquatic Products: Aquatic Resources (Table of Contents)
Chinese to English: Handbook for Work in the Countryside
Source text - Chinese Hua Nong ed. Handbook for Work in the Countryside, Xinhua Publishing House, Beijing, 1983
Translation - English Reference table for selecting the major tree varieties suitable for afforestation for the various regions
Chinese to English: Growing Flowers
Source text - Chinese Deng Cheng Kang ed., Growing Flowers (2nd Edition), Sichuan People's Publishing House, 1983
Translation - English Table of Contents
Chinese to English: China a Land of Beauty - The Silk Road
Source text - Chinese Shaanxi Province Tourism Board, Gansu Province Tourism Board, Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region Tourism Board eds. China a Land of Beauty - The Silk Road, Shanghai People's Art Publishing House, Shanghai, 1983
Translation - English Tianshui
Lanzhou
The Hexi Corridor
Chinese to English: Tongyong Zhongguo Jiaotong Dituce
Source text - Chinese Zhang Bao Jun ed., Tongyong Zhongguo Jiaotong Dituce, Hunan Cartographical Publishing House, 1999
Translation - English Nationally significant historical and cultural cities
Major National Scenic and Cultural Sites
Major National Nature Reserves
Chinese to English: Gansu People's Publishing House ed., Gansu
Source text - Chinese Gansu People's Publishing House ed., Gansu, Lanzhou, 1982
Translation - English Gansu
Chinese to English: Test translations
Source text - Chinese .
'Oriental Emperor'
Translation - English China's Ancient Pottery
Juci Mountain: Longshou Greets the Sun
Chinese to English: "Pocket Atlas"
Source text - Chinese "Pocket Atlas", 1982
Translation - English Antarctica
Chinese to English: China Newsweek
Source text - Chinese China Newsweek, 2012, Beijing
Translation - English Editorial:
4:2012.2.13 China needs profound reform
5:2012.2.20 Summoning the courage to resolve major issues
6:2012.2.27 Optimizing the new international order with confidence
7:2012.3.5 Looking forward to the “Two Sessions” actively pushing forward tax reductions
8:2012.3.12 From economic growth to order-building
9:2012.3.19 Allowing proposals for discussion and notices of motion to form political will
10:2012.3.26 To push forward reform, the policy-making process must be opened up
11:2012.4.2 Let the people and local government be involved in the reform process
12:2012.4.9 Wenzhou needs more wide-ranging system experimental powers
13:2012.4.16 If the people have no faith, there is no standing
14:2012.4.23 Allowing power to operate in the sunlight
15:2012.4.30 Controlling the Ghost Employee Phenomenon through Reform of the Budget System
17:2012.5.21 Party Democracy Moving Forward
18:2012.5.28 Sticking to a rational steady-growth policy mix
19:2012.6.4 Education should move beyond “the cult of imparting knowledge”
21:2012.6.18 Perfecting structural reform of the old-age support system
People:
10:2012.3.26 Yang Jian Enters Politics in New Zealand
Special Feature:
19:2012.6.4 The Confucius Institute’s world map
Expertise:
- training in agricultural science, language and literature, business and teaching
- working experience in government, education and industry
Specialist qualifications:
- BAgrSc (Lincoln), BA in Humanities (Auckland/Canterbury)
- diplomas in teaching and business(AUT)
Language Qualifications:
- 2 years study of Chinese in China (BLCU) 1982-83
- BA(Hons) in Chinese(Waikato) 1998
- Qualified as a translator (by NAATI examination) 2001
- 2 years study of Spanish in Chile 2010-11
- Spanish Proficiency DELE Level C1 2011
- Chinese Proficiency HSK Level 5 2012
- translated modern Chinese literature into English as part of university coursework 1998
- started translating professionally from 2001
- commercial translation work undertaken: educational certificates, academic transcripts, legal and immigration documents
- I translate from simplified Chinese as used in the PRC
- typed scripts only; sorry, no handwritten scripts
- I have also translated Chinese literary, geographic, cultural, educational, tourism, technical and journalistic texts (see portfolio)
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