Abstract/ Résumé
I. Introduction
II. Translation - a growing business
III. The translator - a successful professional?
1. Translators’ employment and pay
2. Translators’ profile
3. Translators’ associations
4. Translator training
IV. The translator: Forty years ago and now
V. Professional organizations
1. Localization Professionals
2. FIT Survey: Analysis of openness to foreign members
VI. Chinese translators in Canada
VII. Chinese in Latin America
VIII. Chinese translators in Latin American professional organizations
IX. Discussion and conclusions
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