Translation Studies on Chinese Films and TV Shows

Professor/Dr. YUE Feng is director of the Institute for Translation & International Communications of Fujian Normal University (FNU) and Dean of the Department of Translation & Interpreting, College of Foreign languages, FNU. With about 100 articles, 30 books, 30 projects and 9 awards, he is the leading scholar in the field of translation in China. Apart from working for FNU, he is research affiliate, Yale University (2005) and translation supervisor with Fujian TV.

• Review of China’s Film and TV Drama Export in Recent Years.- Cultural Default and Translation Compensation in the English Translation of Chinese Films: Taking Ang Lee’s Family Trilogy as an Example.- On Subtitle Translation from the Perspectives of Semantic Translation and Communicative Translation.- Cultural Default and Transmission of Martial Arts Imagery: the Translation of Cultural-loaded Words in The Grandmaster.- On Film Subtitle Translation from the Perspective of Skopos Theory: Taking Black Coal, Thin Ice as an Example.- On Feng’s Humor from the Perspective of Equivalent Effect Translation : Taking Feng Xiaogang’s New Year Comedies as an Example.- On the English Translation of Culture-Loaded Words in Finding Mr. Right from the Perspective of Manipulation Theory.- Translation of Culture-loaded Words in Audiovisual Translation: Taking Empresses in the Palace as an Example.- Meme Transmission and Domestication and Foreignization in the CE Translation of Film Titles.- Translation for International Film Festival under the Guidance of Functional Equivalence Theory.- Considerations for CE Translation of TV News and Production of Foreign-related TV Programs.