Department of Translation, The Chinese University of Hong Kong

Educational Qualifications

DPhil Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, The University of Oxford
Mst Oriental Studies, The University of Oxford
BA East Asian Languages and Civilizations, University of Pennsylvania

Fields of Research/Teaching

Computer-generated text, natural language generation, algorithmic authorship
Experimental translation practices
Literary translation
Experimental and avant-garde literature
Literary bilingualism

Publications

"Han Shaogong's Metalinguistic Play: On Maqiao Cidian." Concentric: Literary and Cultural Studies 50.2 (2024): 37-62.
“Hsia Yü’s Algorithmic Authorship: Reading Pink Noise as Computer-Generated Text.” Modern Chinese Literature and Culture. Forthcoming.
Selected Book Length Translations: Snow Room, by Zhang Shuguang. Sapering Hol Press. Forthcoming January 2026.

Conference/Workshop

“New Directions in Experimental Poetry,” Taiwan Literature in the Twenty-First Century: Taking Stock. Modern Language Association 2025 Convention. January 9-12th, 2025, New Orleans, LA.
“On Reading Computer-Generated Texts: Machine Translation, Generative AI, and the Future of Algorithmic Authorship,” Theory in Practice. Centre for Translation Technology at Chinese University of Hong Kong. December 6-7th, 2024, Hong Kong.
“Reading Machine Translation: Computer-Generated Texts in Motion,” AI Text- and Image-Generation Software and East Asian Literature. Modern Language Association 2024 Convention. January 4-7th, 2024, Philadelphia, PA.
“On Reading Computer-Generated Texts: Machine Translation, Generative AI, and the Future of Algorithmic Authorship,” Association of Asian Studies Annual Meeting. March 14-17th, 2024, Seattle, WA.
“On Reading Computer-Generated Texts: Machine Translation, Generative AI, and the Future of Algorithmic Authorship.” Language and AI in Asia. University of Oxford and The Education University of Hong Kong. September 25-26, 2023, online.
“Computer-Generated Texts in Motion.” Chinese Texts in Motion: Experiments in Reading Translation and Collaborative Authorship. AAS-in-Asia. June 24-27, 2023, Daegu, South Korea.
“Teaching Translation to Students of World Literature: Notes of a Crocodile as a Case Study.” Qiu Miaojin: Textuality, Visuality, and Desire in Global Circulation. The University of Hong Kong. December 4, 2021, online.
“An Invisible Legacy: On Han Shaogong’s Translation Practice.” New Trends in Translation Studies. University of Warwick. November 26, 2022, online.
“Can the Machine Translator Be a Surrealist?” Technically Yours: Technicity, Mediality, and the Stakes of Experience. National Taiwan University. October 18-20, 2019, Taipei, Taiwan.
“The Aesthetics of Machine Translation: Hsia Yu’s Pink Noise.” Radical Translation: Technology, Ethics and Aesthetic Agency in Contemporary Chinese Cultural Production. Association for Asian Studies Annual Conference. March 21-24, 2019, Denver.
“The Poetics of Cyberbabble: From Digital to Hand Constructed.” Poetic Materiality Today. American Comparative Literature Association. March 7-10, 2019, Washington DC.
Panel Speaker, On Translating Non-sense. ALTA41: Performances, Props, Platforms. American Literary Translators Association. October 31-November 3, 2018, Bloomington.
“On Reading Posthuman Lyric,” Technology, Machines, and Labor. Posthumanism in Modern Chinese Culture. University of New Hampshire, September 29-30, 2018, Durham.
“The Role of Non-Han Cultural Production in Contemporary Chinese Studies Curriculums: Essential to the Plot or Just a Token Presence? Pema Tseden as Case Study,” Representation and Performance. Space to Speak: Non-Han Fiction and Film in China and Beyond. University of Leeds, September 7-8, 2018, Leeds.
“Machine Translation and the Poetics of Artificial Language: Hsia Yu’s Pink Noise and Experimental Translation at the Intersections of the Digital,” Critical Asian Humanities. Duke University, April 6-7, 2018, Durham.
“Hsia Yu’s Pink Noise and the Poetics of Artificial Language,” (De)constructing Boundaries. Harvard East Asia Society 21st Annual Graduate Conference, February 9-10, 2018, Harvard University, Cambridge.
“The Electronic Text Made Physical: Digital Poetics and Contemporary Chinese Experimentalism,” Micropress Poetry and the Politics of Electronic Text. Modern Language Association Annual Convention, January 4-7, 2018, New York.
“Machine Translation, Cyberbabble, That Ringing in My Ears: On Multimedia Practices in Hsia Yu’s Experimental Poetry,” Play, Recreation, and Experimentation: Literature and the Arts since the Early Modern Times. University of Kent. December 8-9, 2017, Kent.
“The Aesthetics of Disjunction: Machine Translation as Experimental Practice,” Innovation & Experimentalism in Translation and Translation Theory. University of East Anglia. November 18-19, 2017, Norwich.
“Lost in the Static: Hsia Yu's Experimental Poetics,” Mobility, Technology and the Environment. Mid-Atlantic Region Association for Asian Studies (MARAAS), October 6-8, 2017, Philadelphia.
“Multilingualism, Metalinguistic Play, and Avant-garde Fiction: On Han Shaogong’s Creative Practice,” Modernisms and Modernities: East, West and South, July 19-22, 2017, Fudan University, Shanghai.
“Metalinguistic Play and Han Shaogong's Apocryphal Local: Rethinking Dialect in Contemporary Chinese Fiction,” Association of Chinese and Comparative Literature Biannual Conference, June 21-23, 2017, Chinese University of Kong Hong, Hong Kong.
“The Apocryphal and the Parochial, from Yoknapatawpha to Maqiao: William Faulkner and Chinese ‘Roots-Seeking Literature,’” Modern Language Association Annual Convention, January 5-8, 2017, Philadelphia.
“Gao Xingjian’s Aesthetic of Suggestion: From Stream of Consciousness to Liubai,” Convergence of Artistic Media International Conference, November 1-2, 2016, University of Helsinki, Helsinki.
“On Continuous Bilingual Writing and World Literature: Forging a Psycholinguistic Framework for Literary Criticism,” Cognitive Futures in the Humanities International Conference, June 13-15, 2016, University of Helsinki, Helsinki.
“Writing Between Languages: Guo Xiaolu and Continuous Bilingual Writing,” American Comparative Literature Association Annual Meeting, March 17-20 2016, Harvard University, Cambridge.
“Gao Xingjian’s Bilingualism,” Columbia Graduate Conference on East Asia, February 26-27 2016, Columbia University, New York.

Academic/Professional Service

Leadership Counsel, Literary Translators Division. American Translators Association. 2023-present.
Working Group, Pen America’s The 2023 Manifesto on Literary Translation.