外語院迎校慶系列講座:

五十年代香港美新處資助的翻譯--以宋鄺文美的美國文學翻譯為例

主講人：李波

時 間：2018年10月18日15：30—17：30

地 點：思學樓B307

內容簡介:

Recent scholarly works shed new lights on the intertwined relationship between the American cultural Cold War policy and its cultural export in the 1950s and 1960s, particularly in Eastern Asian areas like Hong Kong and Taiwan. Meanwhile, Substantial research has been carried out, mainly in the European scenario, on the relationship between censorship and translation, while only a few studies have addressed the Chinese context. Out of her proximity to the Chinese mainland, Hong Kong in the 1950s is of temporal and spatial significance, where the political triad, the British colonizer, the United States Information Services (hereafter as USIS) and the Communist China, fights in the undercurrent. This lecture will focus on literary translation in Hong Kong in the 1950s, with special reference to those commissioned by the USIS, trying to delineate how translators applied self-censorship and manipulated the cultural production out of ideological conflict. I will focus in particular on the prominent translator Mae Soong, who tries to picture the U.S.A as a beautiful paradise and discredit the former Soviet Union against the cultural Cold War background.

主講人簡介:

Bo LI, PhD in Translation, is currently Assistant Professor at the Department of Linguistics and Translation of the City University of Hong Kong. He has published academic papers in Media History (Routledge), Translation and Interpreting Studies (accepted to appear in 2019), Norwich Papers (UK), Translation Quarterly (Hong Kong), Malaysia and other journals in China. His research interests include literary translation, Media translation, translation and gender, translation history, etc. He is currently conducting a research on the literary translation in Hong Kong earliest Chinese newspapers and periodical magazines funded by Research Grant Council of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People’s Republic of China. Dr. Li supervises PhD and M.A. students at the Department.

主辦單位:科研處、外國語學院