訪問學人
由九八至九九學年開始，翻譯系將積極邀請國際知名學者到訪，促進交流。九八年十月至十二月訪問翻譯系學人包括：
15-25.10.1998──黎難秋教授
〈科學翻譯史的分期、特點、結果與簡評〉
〈明清口譯活動概論〉
〈民國時期 (1912-1949) 中國科學翻譯活動概論〉
黎難秋教授簡介：
黎難秋教授出生於抗戰期間的多難之秋，畢業於哈爾濱軍事工程學院，先後於機電部導航研究所、安徽省徽州無線電廠、中國科技大學無線電系及圖書館任職，一九八五年至八七年在美國馬里蘭大學圖書館與資訊科學研究生院進修。現任中國科技大學圖書館館長及教授。
黎教授之研究範疇主要為中國科技翻譯史，已發表論文一百餘篇，一九九三年出版《中國科學文獻翻譯史稿》，一九九六年主編出版《中國科學翻譯史料》，並協助撰寫 Translators Through History 有關中國之部分。黎教授之研究特點為史料豐富翔實，論說有據。《中國科學翻譯史料》所收錄之文獻，絕大部分均極為珍貴，且不見於其他翻譯論文集，為翻譯研究提供莫大方便及幫助。
王宏志教授
26-27.10.1998──Professor Lawrence Venuti
“Writing a Minor Literature” (26.11.98, 10:30am , NAH9, New Asia College)
“Translation, Community, Utopia” (27.11.98, 4:00pm , LG202, Wen Lan Tang, Shaw College)
About Professor Lawrence Venuti:
Professor Lawrence Venuti is currently Professor of English at Temple University . His area of expertise extends from early modern literature, British, American, and foreign poetic traditions to translation theory and history, as well as literary translation. He is the author of Our Halcyon Days: English Prerevolutionary Texts and Postmodern Culture (1989), The Translator's Invisibility : A History of Translation (1995), and The Scandals of Translation: Towards an ethics of Difference (1998). He is the editor of an anthropology of essays, Rethinking Translation : Discourse, Subjectivity, Ideology (1992), and is currently editing the Routledge Translation Studies Reader , a survey of translation theory during the 20 th century.
Professor Chan Sin-wai
2.12.98──Professor Peter Newmark
“The Process of Translating Revisited” (2.12.98 10:30am , NAH9, New Asia College)
“The Ethics of Translation” (2:30pm , Conference Room, 1/F, Cheng Ming Building, New Asia College)
About Professor Peter Newmark Discussions on the art and craft of translating began soon after the advent of the profession, which is among the oldest in recorded history. Down the centuries, most of the talk about this activity used to be either practitioners' personal anecdotal observations or classical scholars' subjective remarks. Solid academic research in this field did not appear until the last quarter of this century, when translating gradually established itself as a respected profession, and translatology became recognized as an academic discipline in its own right. The growing number of modern-day professional translators and interpreters needed a holistic and practical theory to guide them in their daily chore, just as translation educators learned to rely on theoretical enlightenment to improve the efficiency and allow them to speak with greater conviction. It was in this historical point of time that Professor Peter Newmark's contribution came as a blessing. Matched by very few in the world of translation studies, he combined decades of field experience, linguistic and cultural scholarship, and, above all, a liberal dose of common sense, to formulate a theoretical framework admired and used by the present generation of translators around the world. His paradigm of “Semantic Translation” and “Communicative Translation” serves to solve the puzzles of many a translator and student in his work, while at the same time provides a point of reference for sophisticated explorations.
Born in Brno , Czechoslovakia , Professor Peter Newmark migrated to Britain in his youth, and made a living translating in several European languages after his graduation from Trinity College , Cambridge . After a colourful and successful career as translator and editor, he rose to fame as the architect of one of the pioneering translation programmes in the country at the Polytechnic of Central London (now University of Westminster), where he served as Dean of School of Languages. His tenure as President of the Institute of Linguists , one of the most powerful authorities in language services in Europe , demonstrates his vision and care for the profession. He is now Visiting Professor at the University of Surrey . Among the many publications he put out, Approaches to Translation (1980), A Textbook of Translation (1998), About Translation (1998) and Paragraphs on Translation (1993) are best known in the translation circle.
Professor Simon S.C. Chau
Hong Kong Baptist University
11.12.98──Professor Nils G o ran Malmqvist
“Reflections of a Retired European Sinologist” (11.12.98 2:30pm , Cho Yiu Conference Hall)
About Professor Nils G o ran David Malmqvist
Professor Nils G o ran David Malmqvist 馬悅然 was horn in Stockholm. Sweden , in 1924. While a student of Classics and Roman Law in Uppsala , he became fascinated by Daoist philosophy, in translation, and turned to the great Bernhard Karlgren, revered, among other things, for his reconstruction of archaic Chinese. The initial hardship was rewarding. After two years of intensive training in classical Chinese and phonological analysis under his mentor, the determined student was awarded a Rockefeller scholarship to study in China . This led to G o ran Malmqvist's life-long pursuit of and contribution to Chinese studies, starting with his sojourn in Sichuan in the 1940's, where he collected materials on dialects and where he encountered the brave and vivacious Chen Ningtsu 陳寧祖 , who was to become his wife and to have “opened my[his] eyes for the qualities of the Chinese way of life”. Since the 1950's, G o ran Malmqvist has been a young lecturer in London, a budding diplomat in Beijing, established Dean of Oriental Studies in Canberra, and famous Professor of Sinology and Head of the Chinese Department of Stockholm University from 1965 until his retirement in 1990.
Now a pre-eminent cultural figure of the world, he is as active as ever before, an energetic prime mover, always embarking on new international projects such as A Selective Guide lo Chinese Literature (I900-/949) in four volumes and the more recent Anthology of Modern Chinese Poetry from Taiwan. Many of his scholarly publications are innovative. His comparative studies of the Gongyang zhuan and the Guliang zhuan, for example, have presented a new interpretation of the syntactic, stylistic and semantic structures of the two texts and their interrelationship. A prolific translator of Chinese literature, both classical and modern, G o ran Malmqvist stands easily among the greatest practitioners, not only for confirming and disseminating the well-known and important but, above all, for uplifting and highlighting the obscure but truly significant talents. He has translated the monumental Shuihu and Xiyouji. His devotion to Shen Congwen 沈從文 and special attention to Yang Jifu 楊吉甫 are legendary. The present writer, too, has enjoyed his immensely generous and perspicacious guidance in translating the late modern Chinese woman poet Chen Jingrong 陳敬容 of Leshan.
Various honours have been bestowed upon G o ran Malmqvist for the last two decades. Apart from being an Honorary Fellow of SOAS and a member of the Danish Academy, he is also a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Letters, History and Antiquities, a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences and a member of Academia Europaea, just lo name a few. Since 1985 he has become one of the “Eighteen” life members of the Swedish Academy , directly responsible for the award of the Nobel Prize in Literature. For our part, he has been serving the advisory board of The Journal of Translation Studies as well as that of Renditions. On the occasion of his coming visit to receive the degree of Doctor of Literature, honoris causa, from the Chinese University of Hong Kong , he will kindly give a public lecture on 11 December 1998 with the title “Reflections of a Retired European Sinologist.”
Professor Evangeline S. P. Almberg |
