题目: Modernity through Translation: Case Studies on Lu Xun
主讲人：罗选民教授（清华大学）
时间：2009年12月3日（星期四）下午：3：00
地点：文学研究院会议室（科研大楼504室）
主办：文学研究院
内容简介:
Lu Xun is the greatest writer in modern China and his contribution to China’s literary moment was tremendous. Lu Xun has been discussed from different perspectives. Unfortunately, his idea of translation has not been properly and adequately approached. In this seminar, the speaker will treat translation as a kind of cultural memories, presenting how and why Lu Xun did his translation in a semi-feudal and semi-colonial context. The reception of Lu Xun’s translation in the West today will also be discussed. Given a specific cultural context, the speech will demonstrate that translation cannot be deemed merely as a verbal shift from one language to another, an art of verbal performance, but rather a means for the construction and formation of a nation’s modernity.
主讲人简介：
Luo Xuanmin, Ph.D, is professor of English and Translation Studies in the Department of Foreign Languages, Director of the Center for Translation and Interdisciplinary Studies, Tsinghua University, Beijing. He is an Executive Council Member of International Association of Translation and Intercultural Studies, Members on Advisory Board of Canadian journal TTR and Denmark Journal Perspectives: Studies in Translatology. He was twice visiting Fellow to Yale University (1995-1996, 2001) and Fulbright Research Scholar to UCLA in 2006-2007.
His recent publication include: Translating China (co-editor, Multilingual Matters, UK, 2009), Structuralism, Deconstructionalism and Constructionism: Current Translation Theories (Shanghai Foreign Language Education Press, 2009 ); translation of Obama’s book Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming American Dream (Beijing: Law Press, 2008).
