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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.
10/06/19 → 9/06/21
Project: Other Knowledge Transfer
Interpreters and Interpreting in Chinese Archival Records up to 600CE
1/01/16 → 31/12/17
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