Translating Chinese Economic Documents

This subject has the following teaching availabilities in 2016:

Time commitment totals 170 hours.

Admission to the Master of Translation.

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For the purposes of considering request for Reasonable Adjustments under the Disability Standards for Education (Cwth 2005), and Student Support and Engagement Policy, academic requirements for this subject are articulated in the Subject Overview, Learning Outcomes, Assessment and Generic Skills sections of this entry.

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Students will be given hands-on practice on reading and translating a variety of economic documents, including official policy statements, statistical material, business contracts, newspaper reports and comments and information drawn from the world wide web. Special attention will be paid to foreign trade issues and the economic links between Australia and China, and the current development in China’s economic reform. The terminology and style of these documents will be discussed and analysed, as will the linguistic features of this particular genre of written material, and the source and purpose of their publication.

On completion of this subject, students will:

• improve their skills in comprehension and interpretation of economic language in Chinese;
• gain knowledge of some issues of contemporary Chinese economic policy and reform;
• acquire skills to extract information from complex specialized materials written in Chinese, and render them accurately into English;
• be able to present specialized technical information in a correct professional format;
• be equipped with skills to translate Chinese economic documents.

• One 2000 word written assignment due week 6 ( (35%)
• A 1-hour in-class test, 500 words, due week 10 (15%)
• A final translation project of 2500 words due week 12 (50%)

Hurdle requirement: Students are required to attend a minimum of 80% of classes in order to pass this subject.

Materials prepared by the Asia Institute.

This subject is not available as a breadth subject.

• Be able to research, through competent use of the library and other information sources.
• Be able to define areas of inquiry and methods of research.
• Be able to understand the structure of Chinese financial and economic system.
• Show attention to detail through reading and translating.
• Acquire some specialized translation skills by careful preparation of all translation work.
• Acquire time management and planning skills through organizing workloads for various learning tasks.