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The world we are living in is facing challenges to enable communication between linguistically diverse populations. The topic of translation policy is of unprecedented relevance, as it is intrinsically concerned with decisions on how people communicate. The translation-related decisions take forms of not only policy texts (i.e. translation management), but also everyday social practices (i.e. translation practices) and ideological factors (i.e. ...

© 2016 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. Current studies on translation policy towards minority languages are largely confined to the Western context. This paper aims to investigate translation policy in modern China (1949–present) to cast a critical eye on its experiences in policy making, using examples from official regulations, existing studies, and personal networks. It is found that modern China’s translation ...