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Xueting C. Ni 倪雪婷 (she, they)

@xuetingni.bsky.social

Award-winning author 🇨🇳🇬🇧 :queer and geeky, writes non-fiction about Chinese cultures, curates and translates genre fiction (scifi, horror, fantasy, wuxia). snowpavilion.co.uk

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Xueting C. Ni 倪雪婷 (she, they)@xuetingni.bsky.social · 2w ago

Er Ye denotes his place in group but isn't a proper name. I have it as Second Master. 二月红 February Red is his nickname, one explanation for it is that when he's dressed in his opera costumes, he's more beautiful than the red blossoms in February, this is the meaning I retained in my translation.

L the Girl in Black@girlinblack.bsky.social · 2mo ago

I'm right now halfway through the 2016 Mystic Nine series (subbed, at viki), and I did a double take at "February Red" until it dawned on me that it was Er Ye😅

Xueting C. Ni 倪雪婷 (she, they)@xuetingni.bsky.social · 2w ago

I'm an early proponent of footnotes and using pinyin for culturally unique concepts, but a great translator should adopt a flexible and varied approach depending on what works best for each occasion, otherwise we not only restrict our techniques but the dynamic representation of the original works.

L the Girl in Black@girlinblack.bsky.social · 2mo ago

There was a discussion in the danmei subreddit about this, it seems that danmei translators tend to put lots of footnotes and explanations at the end of the books, but wuxia translators have chosen to translate names a lot more often, and the difference between the genres is wild.

Comma Press@commapress.bsky.social · 2w ago

Join us later this month for the launches of China +100, edited by @xuetingni.bsky.social 🎉 We're very grateful to be joined by writers Anna Wu (Wu Shuang) and Dan Shi, courtesy of The Confucius Institute at The University of Manchester. 📅 Leeds Oct 28 📅 Manchester Oct 29 🎟️ in thread below 🧵👇

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