REPRESENTATION OF CHINESE LEGAL CONCEPTS IN RUSSIAN TRANSLATIONS OF THE CIVIL CODE OF THE PRC: A CORPUS-LINGUISTIC ANALYSIS

Abstract

The study aims to identify the ways, in which Chinese legal concepts are represented in the 2020 and 2024 Russian translations of the Civil Code of the People’s Republic of China. The analysis combines corpus-linguistic and comparative translation approaches and focuses on terminological variation, local co-occurrence, and the functional relationship between translated nominations and authentic Russian civil-law usage. The results show that both translations preserve the institutionally marked component referring to socialism when rendering the concept of socialist core values. By contrast, the 2024 translation of the concept of public order and good morals demonstrates greater terminological unification and more consistent use of a single nomination across normative contexts. On this basis, two models of interlingual representation are distinguished: value-component retention and normative adaptation. The findings clarify the relationship between the function of the source legal concept, terminological choice, and the co-occurrence profile of the translated nomination and may be applied in the analysis and editing of Russian translations of Chinese normative texts.