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Dr Michelle Jia YE (葉嘉) is Assistant Professor at the Department of Chinese Language Studies at the Education University of Hong Kong. She was formerly lecturer at University General Education, assistant professor of Translation, and Associate Director of CUHK-Chiang Ching-kuo Asia Pacific Centre for Chinese Studies at Chinese University of Hong Kong. Trained in translation studies, she publishes bilingually on transcultural and translingual practice in 19th- and 20th- century Chinese periodical press in reputable venues, including Modern Chinese Literature and Culture, Translation Studies and Journal of Chinese Studies. She authored a monograph (2021) on translation in early Republican Shanghai literary journals, and published Chinese translations of social scientific works. Her work has been supported by Early Career Scheme (ECS), General Research Fund (GRF), and Collaborative Research Fund (CRF) awarded by Research Grants Council, University Grants Committee, HKSAR. She is completing her second monograph, which traces the emergence of early Chinese cinematic knowledge in Chinese periodical writings circa 1900.


Dr Ye is one of the nine Co-Principal Investigators of the cross-institutional CRF project titled “Lingnan Culture and the World: Construction and Change in the Cultural Landscape of Cantonese Literati from the late Qing to the Republican era in China (1821–1949)” (C4006-22GF). Her on-going research concentrates on the mid- to late-19th-century Cantonese bilinguals’ experiences and impacts on the language, culture, and society of the global Chinese communities.  


Research interests

  • Translation Studies
  • Periodical Studies
  • Lingnan culture
  • Digital Humanities

Teaching Interests

Offering in Term 2, 2024-25:

  • CHI4925 Language and Wellbeing
  • CHI6926 Digital Literacy for Chinese Language Learning


Modules offered in other institutions:

  • Principles of Translation
  • Basic Skills of Translation
  • Introduction to Interpreting
  • Introduction to Translation Studies
  • Advanced Translation Studies
  • Translation Criticism
  • Translation Project: English-Chinese
  • Translation Workshop: English-Chinese
  • Thesis supervision
  • Research Seminar
  • Translation Methodology
  • Translation Theory
  • Bilingual Reading and Writing for Translators
  • In Dialogue with Humanity
  • Understanding China: Tradition and Modernity



External Appointments

Honorary Title

Research Associate, Institute of Chinese Studies, Chinese University of Hong Kong

 

Academic reviews

2024.External Reviewer, META

2024.Internal Reviewer, Journal of Chinese Studies (《中國文化研究所學報》)

2023.External Reviewer, Journal of Translation Studies (《翻譯學報》)

2023.External Reviewer, “Past, current and future trends in indirect literary translation (research)”, Special Issue of Perspectives (2022).

2020.External Reviewer, Journal of Oriental Studies (《 東方文化》)

2019.External Reviewer, TranscUlturAl

2018.External Reviewer, Literary Translation and Cultural Mediators in 'Peripheral' Cultures: Customs Officers or Smugglers? Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan.

2016–2022. Internal Reviewer, Journal of Translation Studies (《翻譯學報》)

 

Curriculum reviews

External Reviewer for Master of Arts in Translation and Interpreting Studies, School of Humanities and Social Science, CUHK-Shenzhen (12/2020–07/2022)

External Reviewer for Master of Arts in Simultaneous Interpreting, School of Humanities and Social Science, CUHK-Shenzhen (12/2020– 07/2022)

External Examiner (Module) (EEM) for Bachelor of Translation with Business Programme, Hang Seng University of Hong Kong (08/2019– 07/2022)

Module Vetter of TRA6101 Scientific and Technical Translation, a course in MA in Translation (Computer–aided Translation) Programme, Hang Seng Management College (08/2016–07/2017)



Professional Services

2024.Panel of judges. Lingnan Culture Studies Research Paper Competition 嶺南文化研究論文獎 2023. Institute of Chinese Studies, CUHK. (08/2023–present)

2024.Panel of judges. Lingnan Culture Studies Research Paper Competition 嶺南文化研究論文獎 2022. Institute of Chinese Studies, CUHK. (08/2022–07/2023)

2023.Judge (Hong Kong Regional), the 9th Cross-trait Interpreting Competition 第九屆海峽兩岸口譯大賽香港賽區 (01–04/2023)

2022.Judge, literary translation section, the 49th Youth Literary Award 第四十九屆青年文學獎文學翻譯組(08/2022–06/2023)



 


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  • SDG 11 - Sustainable Cities and Communities

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