Megan Shank is an editor, writer and translator living in Shanghai, China.
I’m writing and editing others’ writing for a play– a compilation of monologues on a theme. Here’s one I’ve written:
Dollface
by Megan Shank
Even now their faces haunt me: round and cotton, oval and porcelain, square and plastic, mean, cute, shrewd. Blue eyes, brown, stitched or stuck in, lashes, bare, lids and lidless. Button noses. Quiet [...]
Ok, ok. So in the advertisement for this t-shirt, I think they meant “a part” rather than “apart,” as it appears in the video from which the meme came. English is a complicated language, and these are complicated issues with vastly different opinions and interpretations that arise from looking at very similar components. The basic [...]
Instead of trying to put out the Olympic torch, which admittedly possesses the thrill of self-righteousness but means absolutely nothing in the final analysis, buy less made-in-China crap, which is a less comfortable solution but has a stronger impact. Or call up a corporate sponsor of the Olympics — say McDonald’s, Adidas, UPS, Snickers — [...]
I’ve been working with a talented intern who writes Chinese copy that I edit and tweak in Chinese before translating and rewriting in English. Then she modifies the final Chinese product. Below, I include the English version of a sidebar that ran in April’s Enterprise section.
CSR: Where Do We Go Now?
By Sarah Chen
Only two [...]
Again, this story originally ran in Newsweek International, and then I supplemented a Chinese angle for a March 2008 run. You’ll notice how this is definitely for the Chinese reader now — I’m even explaining common English phrases. I also took the portrait to illustrate this story, which I’ll link to later.
You Called For [...]
One of the things we do quite often at Newsweek Select is take Newsweek International content and then “localize” it. That is we supplement the article with a local angle and local people. In recent months, as I’ve been working on a lot of planning aspects for the magazine, we’ve been concentrating our efforts on [...]