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A 398,531-word bilingual corpus supports a mixed-methods study of translator Nicky Harman's style in rendering Huang Beijia's Chinese children's novels into English. The dataset, created by He He and shared on figshare under CC-BY-4.0, integrates quantitative metrics like keyword analysis and readability indices with qualitative close reading. It was last updated on June 2, 2026.

Use Cases

• Analyzing lexical patterns and stylistic choices based on the bilingual corpus structure.
• Investigating the balance of domestication and foreignization strategies based on the translation of Chinese idioms.
• Studying readability and multimodal interaction for young readerships based on the described textual features.
• Examining translator-specific collocations and contracted form usage based on the described stylistic markers.

Strengths

• Corpus totals 398,531 words, enabling quantitative analysis.
• Dataset employs a mixed-methods approach integrating quantitative and qualitative analysis.
• Focuses on two specific translated works by a single translator, providing a controlled case study.

Limitations

• Row count and column-level documentation are absent, limiting immediate suitability assessment.
• The dataset is very small at 5.5 KB, indicating limited scope or highly processed summary data.

Provenance

Source

He He

Collection Method

Self-built bilingual corpus (parallel and comparable) for a corpus-based translation study.

Time Range

Covers source novels from 1996 and 2018, and their translations from 2020 and 2023.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-06-02 17:39:04.