The concept of translation: The Chinovelas in the Philippine context

• Main Author: Buban, Raquel Sison
• Format: text
• Published: Animo Repository 2005
• Subjects: Television soap operas—Taiwan—Translations into Filipino; Television plays, Chinese—Translations into Filipino; Meteor Garden (Television program); Language Interpretation and Translation
• Online Access: https://animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph/faculty_research/12916
• Institution: De La Salle University

The invasion of Chinovelas threatens to end the era of Mexican telenovelas in Philippine TV viewing. Needless to say, it has continued to fever the imagination of the ever curious and wanting consumerist attitude of the Filipinos. Considering the case of the Meteor Garden, Chinovela, which is actual...