Hong-Yu Zhu

Where empathy goes untranslated: the Chinese reflexive Ziji and the recoding of perspective in two complete English translations of Hong Lou Meng

The Mandarin reflexive ziji is a polyfunctional anaphor which, in logophoric uses, can also contribute to empathy and internal perspective. English himself/herself and his/her own , by contrast, are locally constrained and do not provide a general equivalent for this perspectival potential. The translation of...