Tonia (经济信息咨 间有限公司)
www.toniachina.com/English.htm
Beijing-based, this company provides translation
services and market research. According to the website, Tonia not only employs twenty
“full time staff…fluent in major western languages as well as Japanese”
to provide its translation services but also utilizes free-lance contractors throughout
China.
The monthly productivity rate for these translation services is estimated by the
company to be 500,000 Chinese characters or above. For market research, the
company offers these services: Research and Research Methodology; Market
Research and Analysis; Company Development Planning; Industry Analysis; Venture
Analysis and Due Diligence. The company lists Fujitsu, Intel, Motorola, and
Lucent among its clients. Other links on the website include: information on
training, job opportunities, and a company newsletter. Although listed on the
English language mirror site, these three links are only available in Chinese.
The company also sells web services such as home page localization and
consulting services related to a foreign firm’s entry into the China market.
However, none of the services provided by the company are described in great
detail on the website and no prices for translation services are posted.
Shanghai Association of
Engineering Translators
(上海市工程翻译协会)
www.saetnet.com/e03.htm
According
to the website, this association is “a mass academic body of Shanghai
engineering translators…and…is…under the direct leadership of [the] Shanghai
Municipal Commission of Science and Technology.” The
association engages in the following: carrying
out academic activities, undertaking translation work,
and providing consultation
to
both domestic and international clients. The association
indicates that roughly
50% of its members are English translators while the other half are translators
of German,
Japanese, French or Russian. Consultation
services include: market surveys, technical seminars,
investment environment surveys, searches for cooperative business
venture partners, project feasibility studies, catalogues
and sample displays,
movie and video-tape shows
of new products and technologies, photographing and dubbing of video-tapes,
training in foreign languages, and copying and proof-reading
of documents.
Cost for translation services is listed online as follows (the unit of
measurement is in US dollars per 1000 words): From Chinese to Other Languages:
a) English
and Japanese--100.00-120.00; b) German, French, and
Russian--100.00-150.00;
c) Spanish,
Portuguese, Italian, and Korean--300.00-400.00;
From Other Languages to Chinese:
a) English
and Japanese--30.00-40.00; b) German, French, and
Russian--35.00-45.00;
c) Spanish,
Portuguese, Italian, and Korean--150.00-250.00; If the material
required to be translated is difficult or urgent, an extra fee of
20%~100% will be charged. Contact for
translation services is via email: enyigao@saetnet.com.
Additional links on the website include a list of upcoming association
activities, information on membership for interested translators, and a
bimonthly newsletter which is still under construction.
Beijing
Global Bridge Translation Company
www.globaltranslate.com/En_web/intro.htm
According to
the website, this firm was established in 1994 and comprises “a professional network…of more
than 2,100 talented translators.” The firm offers both translation and interpretation services.
Translation services cover
various commercial and legal documents, contracts, insurance policies and
procedures, patents, regulations and standards, scientific and technological
materials, enterprise introduction letters, product specifications, training
manuals, equipment installation manuals, technical instructions,
instructions for large equipment and
production lines, materials for applying for visas, notary services, and scripts for
film or TV. The languages in which
the firm provides translation services include the following: Chinese,
English, Japanese, French, German, Korean, Thai, Russian, Italian, Portuguese,
Spanish, Swedish, Dutch, Indonesian, Malay, Vietnamese, and Greek. Interpretation services are offered in multiple
languages which are not specified on the website. Interpretation services cover various business negotiations, exhibitions,
lectures, international conferences,
business talks and negotiations,
conventions, news
conferences, product presentations, and tourists’ visits. The firm’s areas
of expertise lie in the following industries: telecommunications,
computers,
medicine, chemical engineering, environmental protection, automobile, electricity,
energy, machine building, and metallurgy. The firm also offers website and software
localization with language specializations in Japanese, Korean, and Thai. In
addition, the firm provides services in multilingual
desktop publishing that involve the
translation of files and Internet graphics in order to translate a company’s
website. Finally, the firm provides support services for PageMaker, FrameMaker,
OuarkXPress, Corel Draw, MS Office, and HTML.
Dongwu
Translation Service (东 吴翻译 社有限公司)
www.sootrans.com
Dongwu Translation Service provides
services in the following fields: commercial, legal, academic, and social. The
company offers both translation and interpretation services in a wide range of languages.
Translation services cover all types of documents including quality manuals,
advertising materials, commercial documents, contracts, legal and court
documents, international driver’s licenses, visa and emigration documents, and
notary
documents. The company’s interpreters can provide
interpretation services to companies, organizations, and individuals throughout
the city and its adjoining areas. The company also offers type setting and
graphic reproduction services. The company indicates that “completed translations can be
delivered by mail, fax, e-mail, or courier.”
For
long-term clients, the company offers monthly accounts and
preferential treatment. Translation services
include the following languages: English, Japanese, German,
French,
Russian, Italian, Spanish, Thai, Korean, Vietnamese, Indonesian, Malay, Czech, Slovakian, Hungarian, Ukrainian, Bulgarian, Romanian, Polish, Burmese, Portuguese, Arabic, Bangladeshi, Singhalese, Nepal, Persian, Turkish, Laotian, Cambodian, Mongolian, Philippine, Tamil, Urdu, Serbo-Croatian, Swahili, Hausa, Greek, Albanian, Slovenia, and Esperanto.
Other links include mirror sites in English, Chinese, and Japanese; an
online inquiry form; a description of the company’s services, and an
introduction to the company. The website is uncluttered and clearly outlined as
to the resources it provides.
WEDO
www.wedo21.com
This company’s services include: translation,
newspaper clipping, publishing and composition, translation training,
translation theory research, translation software development, talent dispatch,
copyright trade, and international culture exchanges. The company’s scope of
business covers the following fields: economic, telecom, computers, patents,
fire fighting, water conservancy, construction, trade, law, medicine, chemical
industry, electrical appliances, metallurgy, automobiles, mechanics,
electronics, aeronautics, and literature. The company distinguishes itself in
the translation field by offering these additional benefits to clients: 1) a
free test translation to units and groups (less than 400 words / 2 days); 2)
payment for quality work (quality strictly guaranteed or repayment for the
loss); 3) feedback information; 4) WEDO HOTLINE: Tel : (86-10)
6607-1382(English), 6607-1362 (Japanese), Fax:(86-10) 6607-1454, E-mail: wedo@public.bta.net.cn.
The web page is informative, but rather hard to access.
Shanghai Zhengbo Science and Technology Development Company, Ltd.
www.zbst.com.cn/english.htm
This company is mainly engaged in translating
technical materials, especially
those related to the science and technology fields, into various foreign languages. According to the website, the company has
translated commercial contracts, agreements, and technical and
training materials for many key projects in China. The company’s fields of expertise are commerce,
chemicals, power, machinery, instruments, industrial, automated control, and environmental
protection. The company also offers to establish retrieval systems of
microcomputer data and base local area networks for customers. It is not clear from the website whether the company offers services to
international clients. The languages covered by translation services are not
indicated on the website, either.
Beijing Starlight Translation Center
www.xinghui.com
According to
the website, this company is “a
full-service translation company [whose] translators have proven experience in
their field(s) of specialization.”
The company provides the
following translation services: nationwide
and international translation and interpretation; web site translation; and full desktop
publishing.
The website boasts competitive rates. However, the website contains very little
detail about the services offered or languages covered. There is an email
contact,
however,
for questions or price quotes:
starlight@xinghui.com.
Harmony
www.harmonyinvest.com
The website indicates that this company is a
specialized investment consulting company engaged in investment consulting,
international business agency, translation services, and management and foreign
languages training. The company’s areas of expertise include: information;
financing; technology transfer; and promotion of investment to foreign and
domestic companies, financial firms, Chinese developers, and sightseeing
resorts. The website’s links to particular information on translation services
offered by the company are hard to access. The website often fails to load.
Hoshin-Speeding Translation Company
(华 信康 达翻译公司)
www.pass.com.cn/indexe.htm
The website indicates that this company’s translators “are all
degreed and experienced…and have accredited linguistic proficiency [with] a
minimum of three years translation experience.” The company offers discounts
to long-term clients and customers with large amounts of source documents. For
translation services, the company’s languages of expertise are English,
Japanese, and German. The company provides services in both translation and
interpretation. Industries covered by the company include: economy and trade,
machinery, science and technology, chemicals, medicine, literature, civil
aviation, insurance, computers, physical culture, law, and communication. Rates
are quoted quite clearly on the website. The website itself, though, has
problems scrolling and the text becomes intermingled as one scrolls down the
page. This sometimes causes the web page to malfunction and disappear.
Shanghai Sunrise Technical Consulting Company, Ltd.
(上海旭晟翻译有限公司)
www.sunrise-translation.com/html/epagemain.htm
This company offers scientific, technological, and business translation
services. According to the website, the staff providing translation services have professional
backgrounds
in the fields of the chemical
industry, electric power, electronics, machinery, computer science, and information technology. The
division of staff breaks down as follows:
153 persons for English, 38 for Japanese, 26 for Russian,
and nearly 100 for other languages. The company’s services include the
following: translation service (written and oral
translations in the scientific, technologic, and business fields,
and software localization); related
services (graphics scanning, typewriting, proofreading,
typesetting, printing
and binding, and data and information processing).
The company’s services cover the following
industries: chemicals, electric power, nuclear power, automobile, IT technology,
food trade, electronics, machinery, medical apparatus, culture and education,
management system certification, finance, environmental protection, transport,
printing, and mapping and surveying. The company lists the following firms as
some of its international clients: Honeywell China, British United Nutrition
Group, Hitachi, Nomura, and Corning. Languages covered by translation services
include: English, Japanese, Russian,
French, German, Korean, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Arabic, Persian, Dutch,
Polish, Greek, Vietnamese, and
Danish. The website details the procedures by which the company does business.
Prices are not available online, but the company offers free quotations.
Translation services include the following materials: technical documents,
scientific and technological literature, journals, essays, standards, product
instructions, technical and training manuals. Additional services offered are
interpretation, duplicating, typewriting, laser typesetting, printing, binding,
and data processing. The website provides online forms for placing orders and for
providing feedback. The English mirror site contains useful information on the
company and its services.
Xiaohan Translation Service (北京霄汉翻译 中心)
http://transworld.com.cn/english.asp
Based in Beijing, this company advertises itself as “a leading
translation company dedicated to providing foreign language services that
surpass the strictest standards of quality.” Translation
services are covered in English, French,
German and Japanese. The
website lists such firms as
LG, Mercedes Benz, and
3Com
among the company’s clients. The company’s fields of translation
expertise include: company literature,
brochures, and marketing pieces; technical documentation; website localization;
software localization; telecommunications; contracts and legal
documents;
financial and banking documents; proposals and feasibility reports; industrial and
engineering specifications; and
medical and pharmaceutical documents. The website details the process by which documents
are translated. This process involves the creation of a database of corporate terminology to be approved by the client so
as to ensure consistency. The translation is provided in hard copy, disk form,
by email,
by fax,
or by modem. Prices are not posted online, but information and free estimates are available at:
Tel:(8610)62073385, 62073384; E-mail: trans@transworld.com.cn.
The English mirror site contains
sufficient detail to inform potential customers of the company’s services and
operating process. However, the resources offered on the website are sparse in
comparison to other sites listed here.
icansoido (花联压通)
www.icansoido.com
This
company indicates that its services include both translation and
proofreading. Translation services include: trade, technology, literature, law,
medicine, insurance, mechanics, electronics, chemicals, sports, communications,
computer, agriculture, and
biology fields. The website briefly
summarizes the company’s translation procedure. The company uses email and fax
to both receive orders and return completed order to its clients. Prices online
are quoted as follows: 1)
English to Chinese: General file--US
$20/one thousand words;
Technical file--US $25/one thousand words;
Law and business file--US
$30/one thousand words.
Orders under 1000 words are charged at the rate of 1000 words; 2)
Chinese to English: General file—US
$25/one thousand words;
Technical file—US $30/one
thousand words; Law and business file—US
$35/one thousand words.
Orders under 1000 words are charged at the rate of 1000 words. The website also
indicates that the company is involved
in Web Design and Web development,
services for which detailed information is available on the website. For
market research, legal consultation, and advertising services the detail provided online
is not as detailed as for the translation services.
Beijing Hanhua Translation Services
www.sino-translation.com/english.htm
This company advertises itself as “a leading
cost-effective and value-added total translation solution provider based in
Beijing…dedicat[ed] to offering joint venture companies, foreign enterprises,
organizations, state-owned enterprises, private companies, manufacturers,
factories, trading companies, dealers, scientific research institutes,
government agencies, publishers, universities, law firms, account firms,
financial institutes, banks, consulting firms, ad agencies, individuals and
others the fast, accurate, confidential, and affordable
professional translation services.” Translation services cover the following industries: machinery,
electronics, chemical, power, communication, computers, automobile,
construction, business, law, and finance. Translation involves documents such as
letters, faxes, reports, proposals, articles, books, feasibility studies, ads,
booklets, brochures, catalogs, manuals, handbooks, standards, specifications,
patents, memos, agreements, articles of associations, bidding documents,
contracts, rules, regulations, certificates, software and web pages. The
languages in which translation is offered are: English, Japanese, Chinese, German,
French, Finnish, Danish, Greek, Hebrew, Hungarian, Italian, Indonesian, Czech,
Korean, Arabic, Dutch, Malay, Mongol, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Bulgarian,
Romanian, Swedish, Spanish, Russian, Slovak, Tibetan, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian,
and Vietnamese. Prices are not available on the website, but free quotes are accessible
via email or mail contact: 2/ F, Huaheng Building, Xicheng District,
Beijing 100031, China; Telephone: 86 10 66078159; Fax: 86 10 66078159; email: hhts@china.com.
Search
the CEAS Website
CEAS homepage
UCLA
Center for East Asian Studies