March 2019 Sin Wai Kin Distinguished Professor of Chinese Culture and Translation John Minford on Culture and Translation Series The School of Translation is privileged to have Professor John Minford, Sin Wai Kin Distinguished Professor of Chinese Culture and Translation, visiting The Hang Seng University of Hong Kong again in March to host a series…
26 January 2019 Information sessions for MA in Translation Programmes Come and know more about our programmes in business/legal translation and translation technology by attending our information sessions on Saturday, 26 January 2019: Time: 4:00 p.m. – 4:30 p.m. MA in Translation (Business and Legal) Time: 4:30 p.m. – 5:00 p.m. MA in Translation (Computer-aided…
April 2018 Public Lectures : “The Stone’s Journey to the West: A Translator’s View” 公開講座 : 紅樓夢西遊記 The School of Translation is privileged to have Sin Wai Kin Distinguished Professor of Chinese Culture and Translation, Professor John Minford, visiting Hang Seng Management College again in April to host a series of public lecture on Culture…
26 October 2018 The Consul General of Vietnam visited HSMC and School of Translation The Consul General of Vietnam to Hong Kong SAR and Macau SAR Mr. Tran Thanh Huan paid a visit to HSMC and the School of Translation today, and was greeted by Provost Prof. Gilbert Fong and the Acting Dean of the…
15 October 2018 Visitors from National Taipei University Following their visit in 2016 and 2017, students from the Department of Foreign Languages and Applied Linguistics of National Taipei University, led by Associate Professor and Chairperson of the Department Dr. Rae Lan, paid a visit to the School of Translation from 15 to 20 October 2018.…
21 August 2018 BTB Freshmen Get Ready on Student Orientation Day New students of the Bachelor of Translation with Business (Honours) Programme (BTB) were welcomed by staff, alumni, and students of the School of Translation (STRA) on 21 August 2018, HSMC’s Student Orientation Day. Introducing the School’s teaching staff, Dr. Shelby Chan, Acting Dean of…
28 April 2018 The Stone’s Journey to the West: A Translator’s View In the Garden of Perfect Freedom In the finale of this public lecture series, Professor John Minford explored the brilliant ideas of Professor David Hawkes when translating The Story of the Stone. The “cultural sleight of hand” that Hawkes employed, as Professor Minford…
21 April 2018 The Stone’s Journey to the West: A Translator’s View Hearing the Sound—The Art of Doing Things Differently, the Incorporated Footnote & Cultural Sleight of Hand In the third lecture, Professor John Minford recalled beautiful moments in Egypt and Vienna, where he learned musical instruments when he was a child and listened to…
14 April 2018 The Stone’s Journey to the West: A Translator’s View Recasting—David Hawkes and the Fourfold Dadaist Path of Creative Translation After introducing some examples of collaboration in translating Chinese literature, Professor John Minford started telling the story about the translation project of The Story of the Stone undertaken by his master and father-in-law,…
9 July 2018 Talk by Professor Monika Gaenssbauer from Stockholm University Professor Monika Gaenssbauer, Associate Professor of Chinese Studies at Stockholm University, Sweden, visited the School of Translation on 9 July 2018 and delivered a talk titled “Translation – a ‘sharp sword of culture’? Modes and concepts of translation in late 19th and early 20th century…
