Department of Translation

Projects

Projects per year 2012 2012 2014 2017 2018 2021 2022 2023 2024 2026

• 1 Curtailed
• 9 Active
• 42 Finished

Projects per year

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• Active

  Earliest Designations of Interpreters in Chinese records: Official Titles or Transliterations?

  LUNG, R. (PI)

  LU Research Committee

  1/09/24 → 31/08/26

  Project: Grant Research

• The Book Thief: Glocalization and the Bi-Directional Translation of Knowledge between China and Early Modern Europe

  MORAR, F.-S. (PI)

  LU Research Committee

  1/06/24 → 1/06/25

  Project: Grant Research

• Mapping the Translator: A Study of Nicky Harman as a Translator

  BAI, L. (PI)

  LU Research Committee

  1/06/24 → 1/01/26

  Project: Grant Research

• The Ecotranslation of Sinophone Cities

  STERK, D. C. (PI)

  LU Research Committee

  1/05/24 → 30/06/25

  Project: Grant Research

• Translation and world literature: case studies of Chinese and Russian literature

  HUI, T. Y. I. (PI)

  LU Research Committee

  1/05/24 → 30/04/25

  Project: Grant Research

• Translation and the Making of Modern Tibetan Diction (翻譯與現代藏語文的構建)

  BAI, Y. (PI)

  1/01/24 → 31/12/26

  Project: Grant Research

• Interpreters for the Chinese Labour Corps During WWI (一战期间中国劳工兵团的口译员研究)

  LI, B. (PI) & GLYNN, D. S. (CoI)

  Research Grants Council (HKSAR)

  1/01/24 → 31/12/25

  Project: Grant Research

• Capable yet Invisible: Interpreters at the Dawn of Global Buddhism

  BAI, Y. (PI)

  LU Research Committee

  1/06/23 → 31/05/25

  Project: Grant Research

• The Heuristics of Translational Sinography: Examining the Cultural Formations of Classical Chinese Poetry in English Translation, 1890s-1920s

  LIN, Q. (PI)

  Research Grants Council (HKSAR)

  1/01/23 → 31/12/24

  Project: Grant Research

  • Chinese 100%
  • Translation 100%
  • Palimpsest 100%
  • Transcultural 100%
  • Conceptualization 50%
• Finished

  Arthur Waley as Reviewer: Unpacking the Publisher’s Archive and Historical Review

  LIN, Q. (PI)

  LU Research Committee

  1/05/23 → 20/02/24

  Project: Grant Research

• A Study of the Translation of Jia Pingwa's Works at Paper Republic

  BAI, L. (PI)

  LU Research Committee

  1/01/23 → 1/09/24

  Project: Grant Research

• Media Interpreting by Two Taiwan TV Stations: With Reference to 2020 USA Presidential Debates

  LI, B. (PI)

  LU Research Committee

  1/06/22 → 31/05/24

  Project: Grant Research

• Translation in a translator's life: Zhu Shenghao and his translation of Shakespeare in Wartime China (1935-1944)

  LUO, W. (PI)

  LU Research Committee

  1/05/22 → 31/08/22

  Project: Grant Research

• Medical References in Sherlock Holmes’ Stories and their Chinese Translation in Early Chinese Periodicals

  LI, B. (PI)

  LU Research Committee

  1/01/22 → 31/12/23

  Project: Grant Research

• Transadvertising Western medicine in The Chinese Mail (1895-1940) (西醫藥產品廣告的跨文化譯寫：以《華字日報》（1895-1940）為例)

  LI, B. (PI)

  Research Grants Council (HKSAR)

  1/01/22 → 30/06/24

  Project: Grant Research

  • English for Medical Purpose 100%

• Minority Autoethnobotany: The Role of Translation in Seediq- Language Descriptions of Plants

  STERK, D. C. (PI)

  Research Grants Council (HKSAR)

  1/01/22 → 30/06/23

  Project: Grant Research

• Mapping the Translator: A Study on Liang Shiqiu

  BAI, L. (PI)

  LU Research Committee

  1/11/21 → 1/05/22

  Project: Grant Research

  • Poetics 100%
  • Writer 66%
  • Inconsistency 33%
  • Cognitive 33%
  • Patron 33%

• Connected Cartographies: World Maps in Translation between China, Inner Asia and Early Modern Europe (互聯地圖學：中國、內亞和近代歐洲之間的世界地圖翻譯)

  MORAR, F.-S. (PI)

  Research Grants Council (HKSAR)

  1/08/21 → 31/01/24

  Project: Grant Research

• Using translation to promote cross‐linguistic and cross‐cultural awareness in the community

  LUNG, R. (PI), HUI, T. Y. I. (CoI), LIANG, W.-C. (CoI), BAI, L. (CoI), STERK, D. C. (CoI) & LIN, Q. (CoI)

  LU Research Committee

  1/06/21 → 30/11/23

  Project: Other Knowledge Transfer

• USIS-Commissioned Translations in Hong Kong against the Background of the Cold War in the 1950s (冷戰初期美新處在香港資助的翻譯研究)

  LI, B. (PI)

  Research Grants Council (HKSAR)

  1/01/21 → 30/06/23

  Project: Grant Research

  • State 100%
  • Hong Kong 66%
  • Information Services 50%
  • Pinyin 50%
  • China 33%

• When AI Meets TCM: Neural Machine Translating Traditional Chinese Medicine Texts (當人工智能遇見傳統中醫：以神經機器翻譯系統翻譯中醫文本)

  LIANG, W.-C. (PI)

  Research Grants Council (HKSAR)

  1/01/20 → 31/12/21

  Project: Grant Research

• A Study on the Quality of Translation of the News-related Blogs

  BAI, L. (PI)

  LU Research Committee

  1/10/19 → 1/03/22

  Project: Grant Research

  • Blogs 100%
  • Social Media 100%
  • era 100%
  • Case Study 100%
  • Translation 100%

• Transgelism: Promoting the Concept and Good Practices of Chinese-English Translation in Chinese-speaking Communities

  HUI, T. Y. I. (PI), LUNG, R. (CoI), LIANG, W.-C. (CoI), CHEUNG, Y. K. (CoI), TANG, K. L. (CoI) & TONG, M. J. (CoI)

  LU Research Committee

  10/06/19 → 9/06/21

  Project: Other Knowledge Transfer

• Towards Indigenous Language Translation Studies: Translation in the Contemporary Revitalisation of Indigenous Languages in Taiwan

  STERK, D. C. (PI)

  LU Research Committee

  1/10/18 → 31/08/19

  Project: Grant Research

• Free Translation, Adaptation, and Sino-Japanese Transcultural Rewriting (自由譯・編譯・中日跨文化改寫)

  CHAN, T. H. L. (PI)

  Research Grants Council (HKSAR)

  1/07/18 → 30/06/19

  Project: Grant Research

  • Literature 100%
  • Re-writing 100%
  • Reality 50%
  • Contemporary 50%
  • Literary translation 50%

• Training ethnic minority teenage community interpreters in Hong Kong

  CHAN, L. J. (PI) & CHEUNG, Y. K. (CoI)

  LU Research Committee

  11/06/18 → 30/06/19

  Project: Other Knowledge Transfer

• Serialized Literary Translation in Hong Kong Chinese Newspapers (1900-1911) (二十世紀初香港華文報紙連載的翻譯文學研究(1900-1911) )

  LI, B. (PI)

  Research Grants Council (HKSAR)

  1/01/18 → 30/06/21

  Project: Grant Research

  • Chinese 100%
  • Serialization 60%
  • Hong Kong China 60%
  • Translation 60%
  • Literary translation 60%

• Economics in Business and Literary Translation: Surveys of Translators in Hong Kong, Shanghai and Taipei (商業與文學翻譯中的經濟學：香港、上海和台北譯者的調查)

  CHAN, L. J. (PI)

  Research Grants Council (HKSAR)

  1/01/18 → 31/12/19

  Project: Grant Research

• Joint Patronage in Translating Chinese Culture into English in the 21st Century: A Case Study on “CPG China Library” (二十一世紀中國文化英譯的聯合贊 : “中國現當代文化經典文庫”個案研究)

  BAI, L. (PI)

  Research Grants Council (HKSAR)

  1/01/18 → 31/12/19

  Project: Grant Research

  • Patronage 100%
  • English Language 81%
  • Chinese Culture 37%
  • China 37%
  • Project 34%

• English as a Lingua Academica in the Chinese Context: A View from the Perspective of Translation

  CHAN, T. H. L. (PI)

  LU Research Committee

  1/01/18 → 31/03/19

  Project: Grant Research

• “Translator Studies”: Liang Shiqiu as a Translator

  BAI, L. (PI)

  LU Research Committee

  1/05/17 → 1/05/19

  Project: Grant Research

  • indirect discourse 100%

• A Qualitative Investigation into the Asymmetric Information and Signal Jamming in Hong Kong’s Translation Market

  CHAN, L. J. (PI)

  LU Research Committee

  1/05/17 → 30/04/18

  Project: Grant Research

• A Diachronic Study of the English Translations of the Book of Changes (I Ching)

  CHEUNG, Y. K. (PI)

  LU Research Committee

  1/03/17 → 1/03/19

  Project: Grant Research

• Translation and Writing in Early Modern Literature (十六十七世紀英國文學中翻譯和創作的關係)

  HUI, T. Y. I. (PI)

  Research Grants Council (HKSAR)

  1/01/17 → 31/12/18

  Project: Grant Research

  • A Mid-summer Night's Dream 100%
  • Shakespeare 100%
  • dramatic works 100%
  • Roman Tragedy 100%
  • Richard III 50%

• Interpreters and Interpreting in Chinese Archival Records up to 600CE (公元600年以前中國史料中有關口譯人及口譯活動的記載)

  LUNG, R. (PI)

  Research Grants Council (HKSAR)

  1/01/16 → 31/12/17

  Project: Grant Research

  • Text 100%
  • China 95%
  • Textual 85%
  • Diplomatics 76%
  • Writing 76%

• Translation in Tibetan History: The Lives and Work of Tibet's Translators of Buddhism

  RAINE, R. A. (PI)

  LU Research Committee

  1/09/15 → 15/08/16

  Project: Grant Research

• A Critical Re-examination of the Meaning and the Definition of Comedy in Early Modern Theatre

  HUI, T. Y. I. (PI)

  LU Research Committee

  1/03/15 → 29/02/16

  Project: Grant Research

• The Making of Hong Kong Modernism: Hong Kong Literature and Culture of the 1960s (香港現代主義的發生：一九六○年代的香港文學與文化)

  WONG, S. H. M. (PI), LAU, Y. P. G. (CoI), LAW, S. M. S. (CoI) & SUN, Y. (CoI)

  Research Grants Council (HKSAR)

  1/01/15 → 31/05/17

  Project: Grant Research

  • Hong Kong 100%
  • Adaptation 100%
  • Director 50%
  • Company 50%
  • Film Industry 50%

• 《千里晨芳》(Morning Blossom from Afar): Annotating a Collection of Classical Chinese Shi/Ci Poems

  KWONG, Y. T. C. (PI)

  LU Research Committee

  1/05/14 → 28/02/15

  Project: Grant Research

• Engaged Scholarship, Translation Education and Student Empowerment

  CHAN, M. H. R. (PI)

  LU Research Committee

  1/05/14 → 15/08/15

  Project: Grant Research

• A Bibliography of Translated Books in Hong Kong from 1949 to 1969

  TONG, M. J. (PI) & SONG, Z. C. (CoI)

  LU Research Committee

  1/05/14 → 30/04/16

  Project: Grant Research

• Approaching Theatre Translation: A Discussion on the Cultural Re-presentation of Shakespeare in the Hong Kong Context

  WONG, W. Y. D. (PI)

  LU Research Committee

  1/05/14 → 31/01/16

  Project: Grant Research

• Transmission of Culture through Words and Images: The Reception of Japanese Manga, as Translated, Adapted and Imitated in Hong Kong

  CHAN, T. H. L. (PI)

  LU Research Committee

  1/05/14 → 30/04/15

  Project: Grant Research

• Translation in Tibetan History: The Lives and Work of Tibet's Translators of Buddhism

  RAINE, R. A. (PI)

  LU Research Committee

  1/04/14 → 31/08/15

  Project: Grant Research

• The Translation of Buddhism in Tibet: A History of People, Strategies and Texts

  RAINE, R. A. (PI) & HALKIAS, G. (CoI)

  LU Research Committee

  1/02/13 → 31/10/14

  Project: Grant Research

• Interpreters and East Asian Language Mediation in 9th-century China: Evidence from The Travels of Japanese Monk Ennin in China from 838 to 847 (中國九世紀的譯語人及與東亞的語際交流:以日本圓仁法師838-847年間入華的遊記為依據)

  LUNG, R. (PI)

  Research Grants Council (HKSAR)

  1/01/13 → 31/12/14

  Project: Grant Research

  • Translator 100%
  • Interpreter 60%
  • Millennium 33%
  • Diary 33%
  • Exchange 30%

• A Critical Survey of Classical Chinese Poetry in Hong Kong in the 21st Century

  KWONG, Y. T. C. (PI)

  LU Research Committee

  1/06/12 → 31/08/14

  Project: Grant Research

• The History of Translation in Tibet

  RAINE, R. A. (PI)

  LU Research Committee

  1/05/12 → 31/12/12

  Project: Grant Research

• 《東山靈雨》(Opportune Rain on the Eastern Hills) cum 《翠韻芊芊》(Verdant Melodies in Bloom): Annotating Two Collections of Classical Chinese Poems

  KWONG, Y. T. C. (PI)

  LU Research Committee

  1/03/12 → 30/09/12

  Project: Grant Research

• Beyond Classical and Vernacular Chinese: Cantonese in the Chinese Translation of Detective Stories in Shanghai Newspapers in the Early 20th Century

  LI, B. (PI)

  LU Research Committee

  15/02/12 → 30/11/12

  Project: Grant Research