Xuemei Chen

List of John Benjamins publications in which Xuemei Chen is involved.

Chen, Xuemei 2023 The role of childhood nostalgia in the reception of translated children’s literature Target 35:4, pp. 595–620 | Article

This article explores how childhood nostalgia influences the reception of translations, specifically in the case of the (re)translation of E. B. White’s children’s book, Charlotte’s Web (1952). I concentrate on two translations – one by Xin Kang (White 1979) and the other by Rongrong Ren (White… read more

Chen, Xuemei 2023 Danmu- assisted learning through back translation: Reception of the English-dubbed Journey to the West (Season II) Babel 69:5, pp. 598–624 | Article

Based on a new type of online data, danmu comments, this article examines the reception of the English-dubbed Chinese drama Journey to the West (Season II). This drama was adapted from a classic Chinese novel of the same title. Studies on dubbing reception have focused on how audiences… read more

Chen, Xuemei 2020 Rachel Weissbrod and Ayelet Kohn. Translating the Visual: A Multimodal Perspective  Babel 66:6, pp. 1045–1049 | Review

Chen, Xuemei 2019 A. Celle, & L. Lansari (Eds.). (2017). Expressing and describing surprise  ITL - International Journal of Applied Linguistics 170:1, pp. 136–141 | Review

Chen, Xuemei  Translating children’s literature for death education Target: Online-First Articles | Article

Despite the significance of death as a theme in children’s literature, few studies examine how it is translated across cultures. Drawing on death education and censorship studies, this article analyzes the English translation of Chen Jiatong’s White Fox series, a Chinese anthropomorphic… read more