Chinese Literature in the World: Dissemination and Translation Practices

Junfeng Zhao is, Ph.D. in Forensic Linguistics, Professor and Director of Centre for Translation Studies, Guangdong University of Foreign Studies (GDUFS). He is now Secretary General of China National Committee for Translation and Interpreting Education, Vice President of World Interpreter and Translator Training Association (WITTA), Vice Director of Legal Translation Committee of Translators’ Association of China (TAC), and Vice Chairman of Translators Association of Guangdong Province, China. From 2014 to 2018, he was Dean of the School of Interpreting and Translation Studies (SITS), GDUFS. He has published extensively in translation and interpreting studies, especially in legal translation and court interpreting.

Defeng Li is Associate Dean of Research and Professor of Translation Studies at the Faculty of Arts and Humanities, University of Macau. He also serves as Director of the Centre for Studies of Translation, Interpreting and Cognition (CSTIC) atthe University of Macau, China. Previously, he taught at School of Oriental and African Studies of University of London, where he served as Chair of the Centre for Translation Studies. He also taught at the Department of Translation, the Chinese University of Hong Kong, for a decade. He is currently President of World Interpreter and Translator Training Association (WITTA), President of International Association of Translation, Interpreting and Cognition (IATIC), Vice President of Chinese Corpus-based Translation Studies Association and Vice President of Chinese Cognitive Translation Studies Association.

Riccardo Moratto is Full Professor of Translation and Interpreting Studies, Chinese Translation and Interpreting at the Graduate Institute of Interpretation and Translation (GIIT), Shanghai International Studies University (SISU) and Honorary Guest Professor at Nanjing Agricultural University. Prof. Moratto is a Chartered Linguist and Fellow Member of CIoL, Visiting Scholar at Shandong University, Honorary Research Fellow at the Center for Translation Studies of Guangdong University of Foreign Studies, and Expert Member of the Translators Association of China (TAC). Prof. Moratto is also an international conference interpreter and a renowned literary translator. He has published extensively in the field of translation and interpreting studies and Chinese literature in translation.