Crowdsourcing boosts translation works

An ambitious digital venture is underway at the office of Internet company Yeeyan.org in Sihui East, Beijing's eastern suburb.

Yeeyan's Project Gutenberg, which has been ongoing since 2012, is credited with the online translation of Charles Darwin's The Voyage of the Beagle. Yeeyan published the Chinese version in August in cooperation with the China Youth Publishing House.

Taking after the original Project Gutenberg, which was initiated by late American author Michael Stern Hart in 1971, to make e-books freely available to people, Yeeyan's project focuses on giving Chinese online readers the option of getting foreign books for free.