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The Art of Translation -- Dr. Julia Lovell, the author of several books on China including The Great Wall: China Against the World and The Politics of Cultural Capital: China's Quest for a Nobel Prize in Literature, will talk about the pitfalls in translation with Zhu Wen.  This session will be in English and Putonghua.  

	Date:	Friday, 13 March, 2009
	Time:	1:00pm
	Venue:	Chung Chi College Library, The Chinese University of Hong Kong

Dr. Lovell has edited and translated in part Lust, Caution, a collection of short stories by Eileen Chang, and her translation of the complete fiction of Lu Xun will be published in 2009.  A lecturer in Chinese history at the University of London, she has translated several contemporary novels including I Love Dollars by Zhu Wen, poet, novelist and filmmaker.  The English version was shortlisted for the 2008 Kiriyama Prize. 

Co-organised by the University Library System, the Department of English, and the Department of Translation.