East Asian Translation

This satellite brings together colleagues researching and working with the translation of East Asian languages across the School of Languages, Cultures and Societies:

Professor Martin Ward and Dr Cuie Xu

This satellite seeks to advance and disseminate research into the translation of East Asian languages.

Mediating between ‘East’ and ‘West’, we consider different cultures, political systems, contexts, views on theory, methodologies and more as we work with Chinese, Japanese, and Korean. Our particular areas of interest include translation pedagogy, children’s books, online literature, music, theatre, game translation and localisation, media and journalism, graphic novels, popular science, Japanese anime, machine translation and human translation, Korean films, Chinese political discourse, literary translation.

If you are interested in joining the group, please contact Prof. Martin Ward ([email protected])

We address a broad range of research questions, such as:

• Challenges in Machine Translation
• Challenges in translating Korean films
• Challenges in translating Children’s books
• Approaches to Translating Popular Science (based on an analysis of student translation project)
• What can we learn from a good piece of human translation?
• Challenges in Teaching translation (Pedagogical research) (Academic writing ability, critical thinking ability, the language (e.g., register) used in target culture, the command of the TL grammar and vocabulary, (student’s) writing skills, comprehension of ST, research to the ST.)

Current projects:

Translation Error Analysis for Chinese/English Translation Pedagogy

CfP Untranslatability and non-translation in the Japanese context

The satellite also serves to support visiting researchers within the field of East Asian Translation Studies during their time in Leeds, providing spaces for engagement and giving visibility to their work.

Current visiting research fellows:

KUANG Xiaowen, Hainan University, Haikou, China

WEN Ping,  Chengdu University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Chengdu, China

FAN Xinshuang, Northeast Forestry University, Harbin, China

Past visiting research fellows:

XU Yuanyuan, Xihua University, Chengdu, China

YAN Yuan, Jinling Institute of Technology, Nanjing, China

For anyone interested in applying to spend a period of time in the School of Languages, Cultures and Societies as a Visiting Research Fellow (who would normally be a full-time member of another university/institution), please follow this guidance.