Staff & Student Area

Designed for students who are interested in translating Chinese literature into English for a variety of professional settings and publication venues, this course will develop students’ expertise in conveying in English ideas first expressed in Chinese. Through close study, students will not only be further taught to analyze the linguistic, stylistic, and cultural features of the source text, but also challenged to present innovative solutions for a variety of translation problems. The texts chosen to be analyzed for this course include classical and contemporary Chinese poems, as well as contemporary Hong Kong/Chinese prose and novels.

Assessment: 100% coursework