Dialect, Voice, and Identity in Chinese Translation is the first book-length attempt to undertake a descriptive investigation of how dialect in British and American novels and dramas are translated into Chinese.

Jing Yu is an associate professor at School of Foreign Languages, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China, with a PhD in translation and interpreting studies from The Hong Kong Polytechnic University. Her research interests include literary translation, translation theories, dialect translation, and audio-visual translation, on which she has published two books in Chinese and over two dozen articles in peer-reviewed journals including Target, Translation and Interpreting Studies, Perspectives, IRCL, Neohelicon, Language and Literature, and Chinese Translators Journal.