A group of students have translated an English-language encyclopedia into Chinese.
About 80 translation students at Hong Kong Baptist University (BU) spent 18 months working on the Oxford Children's Encyclopedia as part of their placement.
The translation project was commissioned by Oxford University Press (China) and co-ordinated by BU's Centre for Translation.
The original English-language edition of the encyclopedia has more than 2,000 entries and 900,000 words in a set of nine volumes. Its new Chinese edition was launched last Thursday.
Professor Jane Lai Chui- chun, director of the Centre for Translation and the translation programme course leader at BU, said: 'The project provided the best opportunity for a teaching-learning experience for staff and students.' The project was structured to include the one-year translating and editing placement students must undergo.
The bulk of the encyclopedia was translated by five third-year students.
They were joined by more than 70 students while academic staff advised, along with a team of specialist consultants, notably Cheng Yang-ping, the interpreter for the British side during the Sino-British negotiations in the early 1980s.