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Like any author, translators want to receive credit for their work instead of being treated as an afterthought

The British Museum has had to apologise after a translator’s words were used without permission. Writer and translator Yilin Wang shared on Twitter that their translations of work by the Chinese feminist poet Qiu Jin appeared in the museum’s exhibition, China’s Hidden Century, without consent.

The move comes amid a dispute over pay, pensions and jobs in the civil service

Yilin Wang had translated passages from a Chinese revolutionary which were used in the China’s Hidden Century exhibition