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[15-16, Jul. 2026] Mystical Creatures in Translation and Transformation: Morphing and Animals in Chinese Culture and Media
| Date & Time: |
| July 15, 2026 |10:00-18:00 |
| July 16, 2026 | 9:30-11:30 |
| Venue: |
| July 15, 2025 |LT4, Cheng Yu Tung Building, CUHK |
| July 16, 2026 |209A, Cheng Yu Tung Building, CUHK |
| Registration: https://cloud.itsc.cuhk.edu.hk/webform/view.php?id=13735088 |
| July 15 Day 1 |
| Opening Remarks and Group Photo |
| Panel 1: Mystical Creatures |
| 1. Title: From Tortoise to Cross: Translating Kouei 龜 as a Mystical Creature in Jesuit Figurist Exegesis Speaker: Sophie Ling-chia Wei, Chinese University of Hong Kong |
| 2. Title: Re-assessing Chinese Knowledge of “the Handy Works of God”: S. Wells Williams’ Translation of Siling 四灵 in the “Notice of Natural History” Series Speaker: Siyang Shuai, East China Normal University |
| 3. Title: From Flying Dragon 飛龍 to the Winged Dragon: Dragons, Monsters, and Natural History in Jesuit Cartography from Ricci to Verbiest Speaker: Fangyi Cheng, Sun Yat-sen University |
| 4. Title: Lions with Flowery Balls: Translations and Transformations of a Sichuanese Vernacular Embroidery Motif Speaker: Cory Willmott, Southern Illinois University Edwardsville |
| Panel 2: Digital Animals |
| 1. Title: The Queer Animal: Sexuality and Species in Chinese Animation Speaker: Daisy Du, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology |
| 2. Title: Mischievous Monkeys and Eternal Snakes: Mystical Creatures in Translation and Transformation Speaker: Liang Luo, George Mason University |
| 3. Title: The Monkey that Raps and Rocks: AI Wukong and Translingual Practice in the Digital Age Speaker: Kiu-wai Chu, Nanyang Technological University |
| Panel 3: Animality and Fantasy |
| 1. Title: Enchanted Animals on the Digital Screens: Rethinking yao in Chinese Fantasy Media (fox) Speaker: Jia Tan, Chinese University of Hong Kong |
| 2. Title: Spider-Woman Archetype, Myth, Goddess: Nüwa Speaker: Zhange Ni, Virginia Tech |
| 3. Title: Return My Rhinoceros!: Meditative Translation of Eco-Grief and the Transformation of the Human Subject through Gong’an Practice Speaker: Chia-ju Chang, Brooklyn College, CUNY |
| July 16 Day 2 |
| Panel 4 Ecology, Elements, and Animals |
| 1. Title: Interspecies Fabulation: Reimagining Extinction with the Formosan Clouded Leopard Speaker: Dingru Huang, University of Minnesota |
| 2. Title: Chinese Shuihu (Water Tiger) in the Making of the Kappa (River Boy) Legend in Edo Japan Speaker: Benjamin Wai ming Ng, Chinese University of Hong Kong |
| 3. Title: From Tiger to Shark: The Marine Folklore on Animal Inter-Transformation in Late Imperial South China Speaker: Richard Yu-Cheng Shih, Chinese University of Hong Kong |
| Co-organisers: Department of Translation, CUHK; Centre for Cultural Studies, Department of Cultural and Religious Studies, CUHK |
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