Public Lectures
Translated Texts in Intellectual History: Intrinsic and Extrinsic Studies of Tianyanlun
31 January 2021
Speaker: Prof. Huang Ko-Wu
Connecting to the World through Translation: The Birth of China's First Encyclopedia
28 February 2021
Speaker: Prof. Chen Liwei
Giving a Concept a Name: How Did Yan Fu Translate “Evolution” and “Ethics”?
28 March 2021
Speaker: Prof. Shen Guowei
Theories and Approaches in the Studies of Asian Translation History: Court and Police Interpreters in Taiwan under Japanese Rule
25 April 2021
Speaker: Prof. Yang Cheng-shu
Qianlong Emperor’s Edicts to King George III of Great Britain: Rethinking Translation and Early Modern China
30 May 2021
Speaker: Prof. Lawrence Wang-chi Wong
The Debate over Humanism in “Contemporary Literature”: The Chinese Translation of Roger Garaudy’s Humanisme marxiste
27 June 2021
Speaker: Prof. Luo Gang
Translating Modern Medical Knowledge: The Translation of Gray’s Anatomy
25 July 2021
Speaker: Prof. Gao Xi
The Critical Discourse and Translation of “Red Classics” during the Seventeen Year Period
29 August 2021
Speaker: Prof. Liao Qiyi
Squaring the Circle: On Yan Fu’s Heroic Efforts to Reconcile Two Different Cultures
26 September 2021
Speaker: Prof. Theodore David Huters
George Thomas Staunton Learns to be a Translator
29 October 2021
Speaker: Prof. Henrietta Harrison
The Influence of Target Culture on Late Qing Scientific Translation
28 November 2021
Speaker: Prof. Nie Fuling
Learning out of “Nurturing” and Spirit out of “Living”: Chen Yuan, Lü Simian, Ch’ien Mu, and Jao Tsung-I in the History of Modern Education and Scholarship
26 December 2021
Speaker: Prof. Chen Pingyuan