The Social Dimensions of Fiction

Changing Content of Translators’ Prefaces: With Special Reference to China Yilin Press’s Translated Publications

“…One kind of these researches chooses only one translator's preface or two translators' prefaces of the same translator as their research object (Crawford, 2013;Oktar, 2012). The other kind of researches on translators' prefaces chooses a large number of translators' prefaces as their data to find a tendency over a certain span of time (Zeptnek, 1993;Harbus, 2007;Dimitriu, 2009;Azar, 2012;Rodriguez-Alvarez & Rodriguez-Gil, 2013).…”