Mapping Salience and Trajectory
On How to Situate Literary Translators in Publishing Legends of the Condor Heroes With Visualization
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 16912817 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Xiaodi Ni (0009-0009-1837-3917, Guizhou University of Finance and Economics, corresponding author), Lijun Yang (0000-0002-4717-2112, Guizhou University of Finance and Economics) |
| Year | 2024 |
| Volume | 14 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Publication date | 2024-04-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | SAGE Open (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2158-2440 • E-ISSN: 2158-2440 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/21582440241251750 |
| OpenAlex | W4398148747 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 69 |
As a publishing success, Legends of the Condor Heroes ( Legends) dispelled the belief that Jin Yong’s works are untranslatable, necessitating fresh scholarly attention. With a mixed-methods approach, this article investigates literary translators’ positioning in publishing network based on empirical data from paratexts, online sources and existing research of Legends through Actor-Network Theory (ANT)-inspired ethnography. It represents these data with visualized networks using Gephi, and conducts social network analysis (SNA) and qualitative analysis with various graphic metrics. It is illustrated that the three translators Anna Holmwood, Gigi Chang and Shelly Bryant and the publisher MacLehose Press serve as the focal actors with considerable connections with other actors in the publishing network. With further exploration of the connections, we find it is the multiple identities of these translators and the publishing strategy of the publisher that help shape their relative high centrality and visibility, which may also be one of the reasons for the success of Legends. This article hopes to complement the mainstream study on translator’s positioning and facilitate the conjunction of Translation Studies and publishing research, with rarely used but helpful techniques from graph theory and social network analysis
Art · Cognitive psychology · Epistemology · Literature · Publishing · Sociology · Trajectory · Visualization · Computer Science · Digital Humanities and Scholarship · Philosophy · Psychology · Translation Studies and Practices · Artificial Intelligence
Networks
Descriptive Translation Studies – and beyond
Social Network Analysis
Translation as a Profession
The Translator's Invisibility
Evaluation in Translation
Unexpected Allies
Collective dynamics of ‘small-world’ networks
Islamic publishing houses in transformation
An Analysis of Cultural Adaptation in the Translation of Names of Characters and Martial Arts Moves in Jin Yong’s Martial Arts Fiction
Towards a new methodological approach to social historiography of translation
The constraints of translating martial arts fiction
A history from below
Invisible agents in translation history
Co-word analysis and bibliometric visualization of translation quality literature
Translating Jin Yong’s Wuxia world into English
Structural Models in Anthropology
Translation as Actor-Networking
Gérard Genette Paratexts
Introducing Social Networks
Reassembling the Social
Who determines the final version? The roles of translators, language revisers and editors in the publishing of a literary translation
Homogenized literary co-translation
Exercising agency
Translator professionalism in Asia
Translating and literary agenting
Measuring relationships in Translation Studies. On affiliations and keyword frequencies in the Translation Studies Bibliography
A complexity perspective on amateur translation networks
Advertising translators as agents of multicultural marketing
Comparative research into translator status
Translator’s narrative intervention in the English translation of Jin Yong’s The Legend of Condor Heroes
Mapping the structure of interpreting studies in China (1996–2019) through co-word analysis
Who has the final say? English translation of online lockdown writing Wuhan Diary
Structured literature review of published research on indirect translation (2017–2022)
The Social Science Encyclopedia
Ideological manipulation in political news translation
A conservative revolution in publishing
Chaos Before Order
| Unique citing works | 1 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1 |
| Citation span | 2025 - 2025 (1) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |