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Clara Ho-yan Chan: Legal Translation and Bilingual Law Drafting in Hong Kong: Challenges and Interactions in Chinese Regions. Routledge, New York, 2020, 153pp, ISBN: 978-0-429-44346-6 (eBook)

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  1. In this review, Hong Kong is taken as the short name for Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of China.

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I would like to express my gratitude to the International Journal for the Semiotics of Law for publishing this review at the moment in celebration to the 25th anniversary of Hong Kong’s return to the motherland.

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YU, W. Clara Ho-yan Chan: Legal Translation and Bilingual Law Drafting in Hong Kong: Challenges and Interactions in Chinese Regions. Routledge, New York, 2020, 153pp, ISBN: 978-0-429-44346-6 (eBook). Int J Semiot Law 35, 2533–2537 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11196-022-09948-9

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