Travel Writer, Meet Your Translator
Travel Blog • Jim Benning • 03.03.08 | 4:41 PM ET
Travel 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…”
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Jim Benning is the editor and co-founder of World Hum.
Ling 03.04.08 | 12:30 AM ET
That’s a great example for cultural tourism and for travel writers. If you can’t get to know the people and the culture you’re visiting, not much point in writing about it.
Marilyn Terrell 03.04.08 | 10:20 AM ET
It makes me happy to think that someone spends as much thoughtful time translating Daisann’s words as she spends writing them.
For more on Daisann’s immersive approach to travel, check out this World Hum interview about her blog, Learning Cantonese: http://www.worldhum.com/weblog/item/daisann_mclane_on_learning_cantonese_in_hong_kong_20070128/