<p>Published by China Children's Press and Publication Group (CCPPG), the new version with 22 adventures, all in colour print, is the most comprehensive Chinese edition available to this day.<br />The new version also marks the first time that the famous comic strips have been directly translated from French to Chinese, Xinhuanet reported Thursday. <br />Wang Bingdong, a professor of French language at Beijing Foreign Studies University, undertook the work.</p>.<p>"It was really a fine and rewarding experience for me during the translation and I became younger with Tintin and his adventures. I was a Tintin fan when I was young," 75-year-old Wang said at the launch ceremony.</p>.<p>In 2001, CCPPG introduced the comics to Chinese readers, but the English to Chinese translation failed to faithfully present the original content, according to the publishing house.<br /><br />In addition to direct translation, each adventure of the new edition is available in both small and large format, at a cost of 12 and 20 yuan ($1.76 and $2.93) each.<br />Created by the Belgian artist Georges Remi, “The Adventures of Tintin” is a series of comic strips that first appeared in a Belgian newspaper in 1929 and proved to be hugely popular. <br /><br />The adventures have been translated to 70-plus languages with a circulation of more than 200 million copies throughout the world.<br />A film version of “The Secret of the Unicorn”, an adventure from the series, is currently being produced by DreamWorks and shot by Steven Spielberg in motion-capture 3D and is expected to hit cinema screens across the globe in 2011.</p>
<p>Published by China Children's Press and Publication Group (CCPPG), the new version with 22 adventures, all in colour print, is the most comprehensive Chinese edition available to this day.<br />The new version also marks the first time that the famous comic strips have been directly translated from French to Chinese, Xinhuanet reported Thursday. <br />Wang Bingdong, a professor of French language at Beijing Foreign Studies University, undertook the work.</p>.<p>"It was really a fine and rewarding experience for me during the translation and I became younger with Tintin and his adventures. I was a Tintin fan when I was young," 75-year-old Wang said at the launch ceremony.</p>.<p>In 2001, CCPPG introduced the comics to Chinese readers, but the English to Chinese translation failed to faithfully present the original content, according to the publishing house.<br /><br />In addition to direct translation, each adventure of the new edition is available in both small and large format, at a cost of 12 and 20 yuan ($1.76 and $2.93) each.<br />Created by the Belgian artist Georges Remi, “The Adventures of Tintin” is a series of comic strips that first appeared in a Belgian newspaper in 1929 and proved to be hugely popular. <br /><br />The adventures have been translated to 70-plus languages with a circulation of more than 200 million copies throughout the world.<br />A film version of “The Secret of the Unicorn”, an adventure from the series, is currently being produced by DreamWorks and shot by Steven Spielberg in motion-capture 3D and is expected to hit cinema screens across the globe in 2011.</p>
