Why one British publisher dedicated his life to translating Chinese literature

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  through an overload of information to get to the heart of the story.

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  This is The Point.

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  Welcome to The Point with me, Liu Xin,

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  and meet Martin Savory, recipient of the 19th China Book Special Contribution Award and Chief Editor of ACA Publishing.

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  Mr. Savory, welcome to The Point.

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  Thank you.

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  Very, very honoured to be here.

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  It's the Honour's Hours.

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  Thank you so much and congratulations on winning the 19th Special Book Awards of China.

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  You're chief editor of ACA Publishing and let's go straight to it.

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  You're publishing a lot of novels.

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  That's the heavyweight and by contemporary Chinese writers.

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  Yes, virtually.

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  And then you translate that manually, not by AI but by people who understand both languages

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  and then try to sell out and you're doing that still primarily in physical form, physical book forms?

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  Yes, although for with our sort of platform

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  that we use for every print book we produce without a lot of extra work we can produce an e-book.

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  But the e-books they for a while they look like they might displace

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  a portion of the print books but then they seem to fall out of favor.

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  So primarily you're still focused on the physical?

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