官帷政治

English translation: Non-transparent politics/black-box politics

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Chinese term or phrase:官帷政治
English translation:Non-transparent politics/black-box politics
Entered by: Wilman

21:46 May 20, 2016
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Social Sciences - Government / Politics / Should be "宫帷”
Chinese term or phrase: 官帷政治
这个国家的政治因为是“官惟政治",所以前景不太明朗。
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Wilman
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Non-transparent politics
Explanation:
宮帷 = 宮殿里的圍幕。亦借指 王宮。

北周 庾信 《周太子太保步陸逞神道碑》:「宮帷定策,殿柱書名。」《宋史·樂志十四》:「宮帷既敞,協氣感通。皇儀親展,壽祉無窮。」

http://www.twword.com/wiki/宮帷

宮帷秘聞 = palace gossips
宮帷鬥爭 = palace power struggle

“宮帷政治” 卻不能譯成 palace politics 因為原文語境應該是講現代一些政治生態。

宮帷政治 = 一切決定皆在 “宮廷” 內進行,等於黑箱作業、缺乏甚至沒有透明度、不受社會大眾或輿論監管的政治權力運作。

由於缺乏透明度,所以原文下句説,“所以前景不太明朗。”

建議譯成 Non-transparent politics,相信英語人才看得明白。

http://people.hss.caltech.edu/~andrea/transparency.pdf

供參考。


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Summary of answers provided
4Non-transparent politics
David Lin
4Black box of the politics
Intotheworld
4Imperial Court politics
Vivian Du (PhD)
3官帷就是官职的意思
ddhelen
3Hierarchy politics
Intotheworld
3politics operated behind the curtain
tanglsus


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官帷就是官职的意思


Explanation:
中国古代的一种政治制度,以多少官位来评价政绩

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Hierarchy politics


Explanation:
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A hierarchical organization is an organizational structure where every entity in the organization, except one, is subordinate to a single other entity. This arrangement is a form of a hierarchy.

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宮帷政治
Non-transparent politics


Explanation:
宮帷 = 宮殿里的圍幕。亦借指 王宮。

北周 庾信 《周太子太保步陸逞神道碑》:「宮帷定策,殿柱書名。」《宋史·樂志十四》:「宮帷既敞,協氣感通。皇儀親展,壽祉無窮。」

http://www.twword.com/wiki/宮帷

宮帷秘聞 = palace gossips
宮帷鬥爭 = palace power struggle

“宮帷政治” 卻不能譯成 palace politics 因為原文語境應該是講現代一些政治生態。

宮帷政治 = 一切決定皆在 “宮廷” 內進行,等於黑箱作業、缺乏甚至沒有透明度、不受社會大眾或輿論監管的政治權力運作。

由於缺乏透明度,所以原文下句説,“所以前景不太明朗。”

建議譯成 Non-transparent politics,相信英語人才看得明白。

http://people.hss.caltech.edu/~andrea/transparency.pdf

供參考。




Example sentence(s):
  • <u>Politics in Hungary are non-transparent</u> – but to change this is only a matter of decision
  • The extent to which various aspects of what goes on within the political sector are observable from the outside, which we refer to as the <u>transparency of politics</u>, still varies a great deal across countries.

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    Reference: http://mitvalasztunk.hu/index.php?option=com_content&view=ar...
David Lin
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Black box of the politics


Explanation:
If it is true as what Mr. Lin explained above, it should refer to a term called "black box theory of the politics". Here is an article that talks exactly about it in China:

http://www.businessinsider.com/chinas-impenetrable-politics-...


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Note added at 20 hrs (2016-05-21 18:18:56 GMT)
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With "the 'black box' of the politics, we just don't know how [China] will react if faced with these very challenging things,"

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politics operated behind the curtain


Explanation:
behind-the-curtain driven politics

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宫帷政治
Imperial Court politics


Explanation:
这里的“宫帷政治”我觉得相当于“官僚政治”,多在有关古代政治制度的文献中出现。
宫帷的释义见:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imperial_Court


Vivian Du (PhD)
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