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The British Museum Has Reached a Settlement With a Translator Whose Work Was Used in an Exhibition Without Her Permission

The British Museum has settled a dispute with Canadian writer Yilin Wang, agreeing to reinstate her translations of Chinese-language poems by early-20th-century feminist revolutionary and poet Qiu Jin ...
Hyperallergic

Translator Says British Museum Used Her Work Without Permission

The ongoing exhibition explores Chinese culture in the 1800s. "Complete Map of All Under Heaven Unified By The Great Qing," (c. 1800) (© The British Library, courtesy the British Museum) The British ...
AOL

The British Museum reaches settlement with translator whose work was used without permission

A translator has reached a settlement and received an apology from the British Museum months after her work was used in a temporary exhibit without her permission or credit. Translations by Yilin Wang ...
CNN

British Museum apologizes after using translator’s work in China exhibition without pay or acknowledgment

When the British Museum launched its “China’s hidden century” exhibition last month, writer and translator Yilin Wang began getting confusing messages from her peers. The show, which featured 19th ...
Hyperallergic

Translator Calls Out British Museum’s “Erasure” of Her Work

Yilin Wang's translations in China's Hidden Century at the British Museum, which have since been removed (photo courtesy Yilin Wang) But Wang is alleging that the museum mishandled the fallout of the ...
CNN

British Museum agrees to pay translator whose work it used without permission

A translator whose work was used by the British Museum without her permission won a victory this week after reaching a settlement with the institution, following two months of negotiations and online ...