Travel Writer, Meet Your Translator

Travel Blog  •  Jim Benning  •  03.03.08 | 4:41 PM ET

imageTravel writer Daisann McLane recently met the man who translates her National Geographic Traveler columns into Mandarin for the magazine’s Chinese edition. At Intelligent Travel, she blogs about meeting Mr. Michael Zhang, “Translator of Many of Your Articles.” The Beijing translator told her over a dumpling lunch in Hong Kong, “When I sit down to translate your column, before I do anything else I try to imagine that I am you, visiting all these wonderful places. And then the words start to come…”