Thursday, August 04, 2005

The editor - aka "the polisher"


beijing 423, originally uploaded by jiulong.

Yes, yours truly with the first issue of Beijing Weekend what I edited [note the cunning wordplay in the headline ...] I've got the easy part- I just correct the English that the Chinese journalists have written. Well, most of it is easy. Here's a typical [unpolished] example:

In order to help the kids learning at the Sihai Children Classics Education Centre, a non-governmental educational agency aiming to spread the knowledge of ancient classics among children, the staff members with the publishing house donated the newly-published reading matter for children.


For your homework tonight I want you to render that into English. And then imagine what it's like to do the same for 20 tabloid pages of the same. Have fun!

1 comment:

mutikonka said...

Hi Sue

The immediate family is in Sydney, to follow shortly to Beijing once I get settled in [like with a house and everything]. The rest of the Woodheads are still in good old Yorkshire, or maybe Scotland.