286 research outputs found
'New Advances in Legal Translation and Interpreting' Junfeng Zhao, Defeng Li and Victoria Lai Cheng Lei (2023)
No full textNew Advances in Legal Translation and Interpreting Junfeng Zhao, Defeng Li and Victoria Lai Cheng Lei (2023)Springer. 264p
A Decade of Chinese Literature in Italy: Challenges and Prospects
No full textWhen compared to other European contexts, especially France and the UK, the Italian market of modern and contemporary Chinese-language literature in translation is still in its early stage of development. However, in recent years, the situation has begun to show some signs of improvement, namely, an increase in the number of published titles, an expansion of the range of genres covered, and a general advancement of national editorial policies. Far from being an exhaustive report on the state of Chinese-language literature currently available in Italian, this paper illustrates a number of phenomena that can be observed in the Italian publishing industry roughly in the last decade. More specifically, it scrutinizes the growing role played by small and medium publishers, the impact of Chinese official support and funding programs, and the emergence of some promising genres and literary forms (notably sci-fi and children’s literature). Finally, the paper attempts to identify the challenges that Chinese-language literature still encounters in the editorial and publishing process, as well as to pinpoint some future prospects for the further development of Chinese-language literature in Italian translation
Genres, Translation and the International Dissemination of Chinese Fiction
No full textGenre can be a powerful tool for the promotion and dissemination of literary texts through translation. Genre recognition and genre’s success in a specific cultural area and historical period can be effective motivations for publishers to accept or support a translation proposal, as the potential readers might be attracted by a Chinese novel relying on the possibility to recognise it as belonging or referring to a certain genre.
As Hatim and Mason (1990) have argued, genre and genre membership are pivotal factors which affect the translator’s decision-making process. In addition, Lucie Biel (2018, 154) highlights the importance of generic conventions as indices of cultures: in translating a text “the translator is bound by 'generic constraints' [...] related to communicative purposes, rhetorical mode and intentionality behind a specific genre in the source and target language”. Genres not only affect the translator’s behaviour, but they also guide readers’ tastes and horizon of expectations. We can consider genres or the knowledge of genres as cognitive schemata readers adopt in order to comprehend actual texts. Therefore, in analysing the reception of Chinese literature abroad, it might be useful to adopt the perspective of genre expectations among publishers and readers as a key factor for understanding the different response of foreign cultures to a literary Chinese work.
In my paper, I will analyse some crucial aspects regarding the translation and reception of Chinese fiction, in terms of literary genre or subgenre identification, providing some examples taken from the corpus of modern Chinese fiction in translation.
Biel, Lucie (2018). “Genre analysis and Translation.” In The Routledge Handbook of Translation Studies and Linguistics, ed. by Kirsten Malmkjœr. London and New York: Routledge, 151-164. Hatim, Basil and Mason (1990). Discourse and the translator. London: Longman
Supplementary_material – Supplemental material for Monoaminergic Genetic Variants, Prefrontal Cortex–Amygdala Circuit, and Emotional Symptoms in Children With ADHD: Exploration Based on the Gene–Brain–Behavior Relationship
No full textSupplemental material, Supplementary_material for Monoaminergic Genetic Variants, Prefrontal Cortex–Amygdala Circuit, and Emotional Symptoms in Children With ADHD: Exploration Based on the Gene–Brain–Behavior Relationship by Lu Liu, Qihua Zhao, Xiaoyan Yu, Defeng Xu, Haimei Li, Ning Ji, Zhaomin Wu, Jia Cheng, Yi Su, Qingjiu Cao, Li Sun, Qiujin Qian and Yufeng Wang in Journal of Attention Disorders</p
HPR-LP : an implementation of an HPR method for solving linear programming
No full text202511 bcchRecord of VersionRGCOthersOpen access funding provided by The Hong Kong Polytechnic University. The work of Defeng Sun was supported by the Research Center for Intelligent Operations Research, RGC Senior Research Fellow Scheme No. SRFS2223-5S02, and GRF Project No. 15304721. The work of Yancheng Yuan was supported by the Research Center for Intelligent Operations Research and The Hong Kong Polytechnic University under grant P0045485. The work of Xinyuan Zhao was supported in part by the National Natural Science Foundation of China under Project No. 12271015.Early releaseSpringer Nature (2025)T
Alternative Theorems for Nonlinear Projection Equations and Applications to Generalized Complementarity Problems
No full text. This paper introduces two concepts of exceptional families for a class of nonlinear projection equations which provide a unified formulation of several special cases such as finite-dimensional variational inequalities and complementarity problems. Based on these concepts, two alternative theorems, and then two sufficient existence conditions, are established for this class of nonlinear projection equations. We use one of the alternative theorems to establish several new existence results for generalized complementarity problems with new classes of functions such as quasi-P , and P (ø; ff; fi)-maps. The class of quasi-P -maps is broad enough to encompass the union of quasi-monotone maps and nonlinear P -maps. The existence results established here significantly relax several previous solution conditions in the literature. Key words. Nonlinear projection equations, variational inequalities, generalized complementarity problems, exceptional families. 1 The research of this author i..
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