Xuanmin Luo
Biographic Data
| ID | 5946067 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Xuanmin Luo |
| GIVEN NAMES | Xuanmin |
| FAMILY NAME | Luo |
| SIGNATURE | LUO X |
| AFFILIATIONS | Guangxi University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9215-6341 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 19 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
To be or not to be,that is an AI question
In 2018, I published an editorial entitled Artificial Intelligence and the Crises of Translation in the first issue of Asia Pacific Translation and Intercultural Studies (Luo 2018, 1). In that arti
Intercultural circulation of canonical literature facilitated by popularizing translation
Popularizing translation refers to the practice of rendering culturally or stylistically complex texts in a way that mediates between the source culture’s specificity and the target lay readers’ everyday knowledge, thereby broadening the audience of the translated text. Although previous research has focused primarily on translation and the popularization of scientific and technical discourse, the role of translation in the popularization of cano…
In search of interdisciplinary translation studies
Asia Pacific translation and intercultural studies
Translation as historical event
Translation in the time of Covid-19
The year 2020 witnessed the outbreak of COVID-19, a new coronavirus that swept the whole world and triggered upheavals in all human societies, with countries forced to lock down and citizens quaran
Translation and diaspora literature
Cooperation among writers, translators, and critics
“East and West: the Fourth International Summit Forum of Writers, Translators and Critics/Editors” was held at Guangxi University, China, from 6th to 8th December 2019. The forum was co-organized b
What can intralingual translation do
The first intralingual workshop in the field of translation was held in 2014 at Bogazici University in Istanbul. The first scholarly gathering of its kind, it gained the attention of translation sc
Artificial intelligence and the crisis of translation
Cultural memory and big translation
The classics of a nation passed down from generation to generation represent its cultural essence, and constitute cardinal reflections of a people’s mentality. In order for people to have access to
Cultural Mediation
This paper focuses on Eileen Chang's self-translation The Rouge of the North basing on her own Chinese novel Jinsuo Ji in American context. The comparative study of the original work and its translation betrays the inner struggles in the heart of the novelist and translator in an alien soil, which are reflected in the adaptation of the plot, the choices of words, reshaping the characters, etc. By detailed analysis of the changes in her translatio…
Peels for Salt
A Note from Russell Leong: As a writer myself, I am often intrigued with other people's lives because they show other ways of living beyond my own. Luo Xuanmin has an interesting life, beyond his activities as a scholar and work as a teacher and translator. He is simply a naturalborn storyteller. Whether it is in a Japanese restaurant in Beijing (where King-Kok Cheung and I first heard this story) or in a Persian cafe in Los Angeles (where he tol…
Translation as Violence
Lu Xun (Zhou Zuoren), who lived from 1881 to 1936, is generally considered the most important Chinese writer of the twentieth century. Born into a semi-colonial, semifeudal China, he gave up a medical career, which had at first seemed to him the natural way to cure the Chinese people, after concluding that China's true malaise lay in the heart and soul of its society, that is, in the corrupt late-Qing government and the mentality of the people
Ideology and Literary Translation
This article focuses on the prominent Chinese reformer Liang Qichao's (1873-1929) thinking concerning and practice of translation work. The focus on the translation work of only one – but someone who was politically very prominent - translator clearly shows that in the major cultural and societal context, translation is marginalised and considered a simple tool for supplementing literature rather than a ‘sharp sword’ for transforming society and …
Translation theory and practice in China
China has a long tradition in translation studies. As the earliest records show, sporadic translation activities began as early as the eleventh century BC, though serious consideration of translation did not begin until the introduction of Buddhism into China in the East Han Dynasty (148). In the following 2000‐year‐long period, China witnessed four great movements of translation activities, which exerted far‐reaching and permanent influence upon…
A textual‐cognitive model for translation
This article discusses Robert de Beaugrande and Wolfgang Dressler's seven textual standards from a cognitive and communicative perspective. It proposes a textual‐cognitive model of the dynamic process of interaction between the seven standards (namely inten‐tionality, acceptability, cohesion, coherence, informativity, situationality, and intertextuality). The model provides an overview of text construction in translation and also describes the na…
Elegance’ in translation
The article discusses post‐colonialism in traditional Chinese literary translation principles in multicultural contexts. It uses Fu Yan's translation principle ‘elegance ‘ and his translation of Thomas Henry Huxley's Evolution and Ethics as a case study. The article illustrates how a translator uses a translation principle which bears a colonial stamp but achieves a post‐colonialist function in reality, and thus how a theory can be deconstructed …
Linguistic Contributions to the Development of Translation Studies in China
This paper tries to draw a clear picture of linguistic contributions to the development of translation in China. It does so by means of a bilateral study focusing on the development of the unit of language and translation. Works of Chinese translation theorists are cited to illustrate different efforts in applying linguistic theory to translation studies, among which the textual approach is cardinal
Ideology and Literary Translation
This article focuses on the prominent Chinese reformer Liang Qichao's (1873-1929) thinking concerning and practice of translation work. The focus on the translation work of only one – but someone who was politically very prominent - translator clearly shows that in the major cultural and societal context, translation is marginalised and considered a simple tool for supplementing literature rather than a ‘sharp sword’ for transforming society and …
Translation theory and practice in China
China has a long tradition in translation studies. As the earliest records show, sporadic translation activities began as early as the eleventh century BC, though serious consideration of translation did not begin until the introduction of Buddhism into China in the East Han Dynasty (148). In the following 2000‐year‐long period, China witnessed four great movements of translation activities, which exerted far‐reaching and permanent influence upon…
Elegance’ in translation
The article discusses post‐colonialism in traditional Chinese literary translation principles in multicultural contexts. It uses Fu Yan's translation principle ‘elegance ‘ and his translation of Thomas Henry Huxley's Evolution and Ethics as a case study. The article illustrates how a translator uses a translation principle which bears a colonial stamp but achieves a post‐colonialist function in reality, and thus how a theory can be deconstructed …
Linguistic Contributions to the Development of Translation Studies in China
This paper tries to draw a clear picture of linguistic contributions to the development of translation in China. It does so by means of a bilateral study focusing on the development of the unit of language and translation. Works of Chinese translation theorists are cited to illustrate different efforts in applying linguistic theory to translation studies, among which the textual approach is cardinal
A textual‐cognitive model for translation
This article discusses Robert de Beaugrande and Wolfgang Dressler's seven textual standards from a cognitive and communicative perspective. It proposes a textual‐cognitive model of the dynamic process of interaction between the seven standards (namely inten‐tionality, acceptability, cohesion, coherence, informativity, situationality, and intertextuality). The model provides an overview of text construction in translation and also describes the na…
Translation theory and practice in China
China has a long tradition in translation studies. As the earliest records show, sporadic translation activities began as early as the eleventh century BC, though serious consideration of translation did not begin until the introduction of Buddhism into China in the East Han Dynasty (148). In the following 2000‐year‐long period, China witnessed four great movements of translation activities, which exerted far‐reaching and permanent influence upon…
Ideology and Literary Translation
This article focuses on the prominent Chinese reformer Liang Qichao's (1873-1929) thinking concerning and practice of translation work. The focus on the translation work of only one – but someone who was politically very prominent - translator clearly shows that in the major cultural and societal context, translation is marginalised and considered a simple tool for supplementing literature rather than a ‘sharp sword’ for transforming society and …
Translation as Violence
Lu Xun (Zhou Zuoren), who lived from 1881 to 1936, is generally considered the most important Chinese writer of the twentieth century. Born into a semi-colonial, semifeudal China, he gave up a medical career, which had at first seemed to him the natural way to cure the Chinese people, after concluding that China's true malaise lay in the heart and soul of its society, that is, in the corrupt late-Qing government and the mentality of the people
Peels for Salt
A Note from Russell Leong: As a writer myself, I am often intrigued with other people's lives because they show other ways of living beyond my own. Luo Xuanmin has an interesting life, beyond his activities as a scholar and work as a teacher and translator. He is simply a naturalborn storyteller. Whether it is in a Japanese restaurant in Beijing (where King-Kok Cheung and I first heard this story) or in a Persian cafe in Los Angeles (where he tol…
Cultural Mediation
This paper focuses on Eileen Chang's self-translation The Rouge of the North basing on her own Chinese novel Jinsuo Ji in American context. The comparative study of the original work and its translation betrays the inner struggles in the heart of the novelist and translator in an alien soil, which are reflected in the adaptation of the plot, the choices of words, reshaping the characters, etc. By detailed analysis of the changes in her translatio…
Cultural memory and big translation
The classics of a nation passed down from generation to generation represent its cultural essence, and constitute cardinal reflections of a people’s mentality. In order for people to have access to
Artificial intelligence and the crisis of translation
What can intralingual translation do
The first intralingual workshop in the field of translation was held in 2014 at Bogazici University in Istanbul. The first scholarly gathering of its kind, it gained the attention of translation sc
Translation and diaspora literature
Cooperation among writers, translators, and critics
“East and West: the Fourth International Summit Forum of Writers, Translators and Critics/Editors” was held at Guangxi University, China, from 6th to 8th December 2019. The forum was co-organized b
Translation in the time of Covid-19
The year 2020 witnessed the outbreak of COVID-19, a new coronavirus that swept the whole world and triggered upheavals in all human societies, with countries forced to lock down and citizens quaran
Translation as historical event
Asia Pacific translation and intercultural studies
In search of interdisciplinary translation studies
To be or not to be,that is an AI question
In 2018, I published an editorial entitled Artificial Intelligence and the Crises of Translation in the first issue of Asia Pacific Translation and Intercultural Studies (Luo 2018, 1). In that arti
Intercultural circulation of canonical literature facilitated by popularizing translation
Popularizing translation refers to the practice of rendering culturally or stylistically complex texts in a way that mediates between the source culture’s specificity and the target lay readers’ everyday knowledge, thereby broadening the audience of the translated text. Although previous research has focused primarily on translation and the popularization of scientific and technical discourse, the role of translation in the popularization of cano…
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