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Jeff had translated a recent Wall Street Journal opinion column—Matthew Hennessey’s “The Future is Not Chinese”—into Chinese and forwarded it to a WeChat group of his old high-school classmates back in China.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 26, 2026

After his divorce from Nesbit, Richard Gilman married Yasuko Shiojiri, who had translated his books into Japanese.

From New York Times • Feb. 13, 2023

Prior to his imprisonment, he had translated and written commentaries on Aristotle’s work, logic, music theory, astronomy, and mathematics that were influential for medieval philosophers.

From Textbooks • Jun. 15, 2022

By then, Amazon had added a Chinese e-book store to its American website and had translated 19 books.

From Reuters • Dec. 17, 2021

Jimmy King had translated the “Marine Corps Hymn” into Navajo and we all sang it together.

From "Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two" by Joseph Bruchac