{"id":268056,"date":"2009-01-23T16:20:04","date_gmt":"2009-01-23T16:20:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wdev.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent-dev\/2009\/01\/23\/translation-and-politics\/"},"modified":"2018-04-16T17:27:22","modified_gmt":"2018-04-16T17:27:22","slug":"translation-and-politics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/2009\/01\/23\/translation-and-politics\/","title":{"rendered":"Translation and Politics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/paper-republic.org\/lucasklein\/politics-of-translation\/\">Paper Republic<\/a> has an interesting post about the politics of translation as related to the censorship of Obama&#8217;s inaugural address in China. <\/p>\n<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/thestar.com.my\/news\/story.asp?file=\/2009\/1\/21\/worldupdates\/2009-01-21T070025Z_01_NOOTR_RTRMDNC_0_-375658-1&#38;sec=Worldupdates\">The Star<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>U.S. President Barack Obama&#8217;s inauguration speech has a little twist in translations available on some Chinese websites where his references to communism and dissent have been cut.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;Recall that earlier generations faced down communism and fascism not just with missiles and tanks, but with sturdy alliances and enduring convictions,&#8221; Obama said in his 18-minute inauguration address on Tuesday. [. . .]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p>In the translations available on top Chinese portals Sina, Sohu, the word &#8220;communism&#8221; is omitted and the paragraph on dissent was gone.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Paper Republic has an interesting post about the politics of translation as related to the censorship of Obama&#8217;s inaugural address in China. From The Star U.S. President Barack Obama&#8217;s inauguration speech has a little twist in translations available on some Chinese websites where his references to communism and dissent have been cut. &#8220;Recall that earlier [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":292,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[67486],"tags":[456,18976,1836,18966,18956],"class_list":["post-268056","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","tag-china","tag-communism","tag-cwp","tag-obama","tag-translation-and-politics"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268056","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/292"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=268056"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268056\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":354796,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268056\/revisions\/354796"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=268056"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=268056"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=268056"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}