Yijia Dong
Thesis title: Reconstructing the Female Subject: the English Translation of Contemporary Chinese Women’s Writing
PhD in Translation Studies
Year of study: 3
- Translation Studies
- School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures
Contact details
- Email: yijia.dong@ed.ac.uk
PhD supervisors:
Background
PhD Candidate in Translation Studies, The University of Edinburgh
MA in Translation Studies (2018), University College London
BA in English Language and Literature (2017), Beijing Institute of Technology
Research summary
Gender and translation; Chinese literature in translation; literary translation and soft power
Conference details
‘Discursive Reconstruction of Gender and Power: Sheng Keyi’s subaltern writing in English translation’, 9th Asian-Pacific Forum on Translation and Intercultural Studies, Wake Forest University, 2022.
‘Female Voices in Translation and Cultural Soft Power: State-sponsored Translation of Chinese Women’s Literature in the Late 20th Century’, The 10th European Society for Translation Studies Congress, Oslo, Norway, 2022.
‘Transcultural Narratives of Gender, Power, and Urban Space: Chinese Rural Migrant Women in Literary Translation’, XXIII Congress of the International Comparative Literature Association, Tbilisi, Georgia, 2022.