Please proofread the following text using professional academic language: “Translations played a key role in the legal reforms, which the Ottoman Empire, Japan and China underwent in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. All kind of knowledge on Western legal orders was translated: Statutes and codifications, treatises, textbooks and manuals, even case law. Translated knowledge played a major role in developing a vision of a new legal order as well as in formulating concrete reform steps.
While the impact of translations cannot be neglected, the complexity of the endeavor has often been underestimated. Translations have all too often been seen as minor works compared to the “original”, as mere repetitions of something which has been already formulated. Translation studies have questioned this perspective during the last decades in a fruitful manner. They pointed out that translation cannot be understood without seeing the cultural and political context in which they are conducted, the often complicated positioning of translators and the resistances which they might face. Being situated in interculturally entangled spaces, translators are led by their perspective and their perception of the “other”, they select material and take active choices with regard to translation techniques and they negotiate new meaning with their  imagined or real audience. Their frame of experience, their understandings, their situatedness and their aims and targets shape the translation which they produce. They re-formulate knowledg The response should be in all capital letters.
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