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This is a thesis for a Masters student, Kang Sun, from Bowling Green.  The abstract reads, in part: “This thesis identifies Chinese university situations specific to the transfer of technical communication to China, especially the relationship between general socio-economic settings in China and the influences these general settings have on the university disciplinary structure changes. The objective of this research is to reveal openings in translation discipline as a shell for technical communciation to merge with. [clip]. It is concluded that the merger of technical communication with translation can both gain technical communication a pivotal status of being a discipline in Chinese universities and solve some problems of the translation field. More importantly, such a merger offers a future-oriented perspective of development for the merged discipline to ride more successfully the stablly growing Chinese economic growth.

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Tech Comm News China, Resource, Translation

A two-part series covers the book publishing industry in China today. Part one discusses how Chinese books are sold in the Western world and provides insight into writing in China. The second article discusses how books from the Western world fare in the Chinese market.

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In January the Shenzhen Association for Quality and the China office of the American Societ for Quality held a quality forum in Shenzhen, China. The forum invited participants to learn about quality development. Approximately 300 attendees heard Kevin Wu, ASQ China general manager; Peter Shi, ASQ member and employee at Nokia Siemens Networks Corp.; and Lestie Carey, organizational change specialist share their experiences. Learn more about the forum on the ASQ website.

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