Inside China’s Professional Translation Market: Assuring Translation Quality (Routledge Studies in Chinese Translation)

Inside China’s Professional Translation Market offers a groundbreaking empirical analysis of how translation quality is managed in China’s rapidly evolving professional translation industry.By treating translation as both a textual product and a professional service, this study uncovers the unique challenges posed by China’s fragmented standards and lack of institutionalized quality assurance (QA) norms.Through six in-depth case studies of Chinese translation companies, this book identifies two dominant QA models-procedure-based and expert-oriented systems-and reveals how these frameworks operate in real-world practice.Combining qualitative interviews with quantitative textual analysis, this research bridges the gap between academia and industry, providing actionable insights into translator selection, revision processes and client-specific QA adaptations.A dedicated section examines the growing but uneven impact of AI tools on China’s market, contrasting technological efficiency gains