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LUNG Wai Chu Rachel, Prof.

 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5379-5236

  • 8 Castle Peak Road, Tuen Mun

    Hong Kong

  • 35 Scopus Citations
  • 4 Scopus h-Index
19972021
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Chinese Name

龍惠珠

Biography

Rachel Lung received a Higher Diploma in Translation and Interpreting at the City Polytechnic of Hong Kong, before working as a translator in the government for two years. She then pursued four years of full-time study and earned her doctoral degree in English Language and Linguistics from the University of Essex in England. After that, she worked as a Research Assistant Professor in the City University of Hong Kong for three years. She then was employed as Assistant Professor at the School of Projessional and Continuing Education at the University of Hong Kong until 2003. She joined the Department of Translation at Lingnan University in the same year. She was promoted to Associate Professor in 2006 and Professor in 2014. Her research interest is in the historical study of interpreting in China. She published a research monograph titled Interpreters in Early Imperial China in 2011, and her research articles appeared in various international translation and interpreting journals.

Research interests

Interpreting Studies, Translation Studies

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Projects 2012 2021

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

HUI, T. Y. I., LUNG, W. C. R., LIANG, W., CHEUNG, Y. K., TANG, K. L. & TONG, M. J.

LU Research Committee

10/06/19 → 9/06/21

Project: Other Knowledge Transfer

Interpreters and Interpreting in Chinese Archival Records up to 600CE

LUNG, W. C. R.

Research Grants Council

1/01/16 → 31/12/17

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

LUNG, W. C. R.

Research Grants Council

1/01/13 → 31/12/14

Project: Grant Research

Research Output 1997 2018

Beyond tally : cultural and spatial meanings of ‘interpreting’ in Ancient China

LUNG, R., 4 Jul 2018.

Research output: Other Conference Contributions › Conference Paper (other) › Other Conference Paper › peer-review

China
mismatch
epistemology
mediation
linguistics

Metamorphosis of a Diplomatic Interpreting Event in Ancient China

LUNG, W. C., 6 Jul 2017.

Research output: Other Conference Contributions › Conference Paper (other) › Research › peer-review

Metamorphoses
Ancient China
China
Language
Household

Rhetorical patterns in ancient Chinese texts on interpreting

LUNG, W. C. R., 9 Mar 2017.

Research output: Other Conference Contributions › Presentation › Presentation

Rhetoric
Interpreter
China
Communicative Function
History

Activities 2017 2017

  • 1 Seminar / Talk / Other Presentation

Auspicious Connotations of Interpreting in Ancient Chinese Texts

Wai Chu Rachel LUNG (Keynote speaker)
11 Nov 2017

Activity: Seminar / Talk / Other Presentation

Thesis

美國詩歌的中文編譯, 1934-1961

Author: SONG, Z. C., 1 Nov 2018

Supervisor: 孫藝風, (Supervisor) & 龍惠珠, (Supervisor)

Student thesis: PhD Thesis (Lingnan)