Promoting discipline of translation
For most of his life Brewitt-Taylor (1857-1938) worked for the Imperial Chinese Customs Service; he also achieved distinction as a Chinese scholar. His masterly translation, The Romance of the Three Kingdoms, was the first of the major traditional Chinese novels to be fully translated into English, the first draft of which being destroyed during the Boxer turmoil.
In the light of the descriptive and poststructuralist translation theories propounded by contemporary western translation scholars with regard to the reception of translation in the recipient culture, this paper attempts to explain an inexplicable phenomenon in Chinese Bible translation, which is considered irrelevant or simply being ignored in the prevailing approaches to Bible translation.
第一部分：結緣翻譯三十年簡述
第二部分：文學翻譯：重寫與競賽
This talk will address specifically the attitude of the censoring institutions to translation as a force that may undermine the interpretation of reality which the oppressive regimes hold as the official one and as the only one the oppressed populations are allowed to accept as true.
西洋詩歌觀念最初傳入漢語文學圈，有賴於來華的傳教士的譯介。在那眾多的西洋宣教士中，早先是歐洲各國的天主教士，繼而是那些新教傳教士，他們在歷時一千餘年間分四批先後來到中國，這其中又以近代時期英美新教傳教士的人數為最多。就在他們來華傳播宗教活動的同時，又將那些適合於吟唱的西洋宗教詩歌（其中包括英語聖詩）作為一種文化副產品介紹過來，而且從這些作品的生成方式來看，它們最初是譯者在服務於「求善」的宣教目的，而採用詩體形式傳譯過來的西洋聖詩，由此賦予了這些譯作若干「美」的內涵。
本文透過分析兩個當代翻譯的個案，反思：
History-writing has received a great boost in Translation Studies research in the past decade. However, for many translation histories, reception is conceived largely in terms of how a translator reads a foreign text, not how the ordinary reader "receives" the products of translation. The sidelining of the reader is evident from a cursory look at the histories of translated modern English fiction in China.
Precision in language is relative and conditional, while fuzziness an absolute and universal predicate. Based on this understanding, the seminar talk will focus on how the notion of 'fuzziness' functions in translation and translation research.
As a consequence of the dominant sense of centralizing government and management and power, the People's Republic of China (PRC) had only one periodical that was officially circulated during her initial 29 years (1949-1977) for publication of literary works in Chinese translation.
Two-Way Mirrors: Cross-Cultural Studies in Glocalization posits a model of knowledge that stresses the dialectics of knowing, where any view of an object also provides (if one looks for it) a reflection of the subject. All knowing is, in this sense, positional, and deictic: where one is "placed" affects what and how one sees.
