Yes Prime Manipulator : How a Chinese Translation of British Political Humor Came into Being

Book Description
A study of Nam-fung's Chinese translation of Jonathan Lynn and Antony Jay's classic political satire, Yes Prime Minister, this monograph analyzes the relationship between function, process and product in the art of translation.

About the Author
Chang Nam-fung is associate professor in the Department of Translation at Lingnan University, Hong Kong.


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This is a descriptive study of the author's Chinese translation of Jonathan Lynn and Antony Jay's Yes Prime Minister, a work characterized by British political humor. Adopting a target-oriented approach, the book aims primarily to uncover the regularities that mark the relationships between the function, process, and final product of a translated text.


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