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“Noted translator William Weaver compared translation to a performing art. I like that metaphor. When doing a translation, I'm engaging in a cultural and linguistic performance, an attempt to re-create an artifact in a new medium. It is a humbling and thrilling experience.
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[Xia Jia's] translation of my novella, "The Man Who Ended History", is in many ways an improvement on the original.”
― Ken Liu, Invisible Planets: Contemporary Chinese Science Fiction in Translation