10 September 2024
DigiTrans will join Casa Asia and the Barcelona Confucius Institute Foundation to offer another round of book club sessions to readers of Chinese literature in Spanish translation. In this edition, readers will delve into the Chinese science fiction phenomenon. Selected authors include Liu Cixin, Hao Jingfang, Chi Ta-wei and Chen Qiufan, among others. Sessions will be hosted by DT members Maialen Marin-Lacarta, Belén Cuadra-Mora and Manuel Pavón-Belizón between October 10, 2024 and January 16, 2025.
19 April 2024
DigiTrans’ PI Maialen Marin-Lacarta and research team members Ester Torres-Simón and Manuel Pavón-Belizón delivered oral communications during the 2nd International Conference on Translation and Cultural Sustainability in Salamanca (Spain), organized by the Universidad de Salamanca’s School of Translation and Interpreting from the 17th to the 19th of April […]
4 March 2024
DT memeber and Hong Kong Baptist University researcher Clara Yu Chuan shared online the details of her ongoing research project “Investigating the Role of Communities and NGOs in Supporting Sustainable Crisis Translation in Hong Kong” that she is undertaking under the ECS scheme of Hong Kong’s Research Grants Council […]
12 February 2024
The journal Translation in Society has published a new research article by DigiTrans’ PI Maialen Marin-Lacarta, “Charting literary translator collaborations in digital contexts: A landscape“. This article, published in open access, is […]
11 December 2023
The book for the session is the classic twentieth-century novel La ciudad fronteriza (Border Town) by Shen Congwen, which was translated into Spanish by Marin-Lacarta. […]
30 November 2023
DT members Belén Cuadra and Teresa I. Tejeda, both professors and translators of Chinese respectively at the Universities of Granada and Salamanca, took part in a new set of seminars organized by the World Sinology Center in China between November and December.
23 November 2023
The ALTER research group at UOC and DigiTrans invited Professor David Ownby (University of Montreal, Canada) on the 23rd of November to host a seminar on the intellectual politics of contemporary China. Prof. Ownby is the founder and editor of the Reading the China Dream project, a groundbreaking website that introduces and translates the work of contemporary Chinese intellectuals into English, offering one of the best perspectives into the intricacies of the PRC’s thought world.
10 November 2023
Zhou Sirui, from Beijing Language and Culture University, shared with DT members her current research on the sociological analysis of the Spanish translation and publication of the classical novel Sueño en el pabellón rojo. […]
19 October 2023
Begoña Ruiz de Infante, member of the DigiTrans Project, has received an award from the Guàrdia Urbana (municipal police) of Barcelona in recognition of her many years of work for intercultural understanding in the Barcelona area. […]
In the framework of the European Researchers’ Night, DigiTrans took part in the Research Fair organized at Barcelona’s CaixaForum Science Museum. In its stand, the DigiTrans introduced visitors to the objectives and initiatives of the[…]
Casa Asia in collaboration with the Barcelona Confucius Institute Foundation (FICB) and DigiTrans organize a new cycle of a monthly online book club under the title “Women Voices“. The sessions will focus on a set[…]
DigiTrans’ principal investigator Maialen Marin-Lacarta participated in the World Sinology Lecture that took place in Qingdao on September 11, 2023. Organized by the Chinese Association for International Understanding (CAFIU) and Beijing Language and Culture University (BLCU), and[…]
19 July 2023
DigiTrans’ members Maialen Marin-Lacarta and Chuan Yu have jointly guest-edited the latest issue of The Translator. […]
23 June 2023
DigiTrans China and the ALTER Research Group at UOC held two seminars with Lucas Klein (Arizona State University), Chinese-to-English literary translator specialized in Chinese poetry. […]
9 June 2023
DigiTrans China has taken part at the 3rd International Conference of the Spanish Association of East Asian Studies that took place in Salamanca on June 7, 8 and 9. DT member Manuel Pavón-Belizón delivered a presentation on the objectives […]
1 June 2023
DT member Manuel Pavón-Belizón has contributed to the forthcoming Routledge Handbook of Academic Knowledge Circulation (June 2023), edited By Wiebke Keim, Leandro Rodriguez Medina, et al., with the chapter “Academic Knowledge, Translation and Geopolitics”. […]
31 May 2023
Lletres Xineses, the contests seeking to promote the engagement of young readers with Chinese literature and culture, celebrated the awarding ceremonies for its primary and secondary school prizes on May 31 and June 1, respectively. […]
15 May 2023
DigiTrans member and renowned Chinese-to-Spanish literary translator Belén Cuadra Mora successfully defended her PhD thesis on May 15, 2023 at the University of Granada (Spain). Congratulations!
26 April 2023
On 26 April, DigiTrans principal investigator Maialen Marin-Lacarta offered a presentation to members of UOC’s IDENTI.CAT research group to discuss the methodological aspects of the DigiTrans project. […]
26 April 2023
Casa Asia organizes the lecture series “A Panorama of Chinese and Sinophone Literature in the 20th Century” in collaboration with DigiTrans. This four-session lecture series (May-June 2023) will be conducted by members of the DigiTrans project, and […]
25 April 2023
On April 25, our DT team member Teresa I. Tejeda Martin delivered a talk on Chen Chuncheng’s novel Submarino en la noche (Aristas Martínez, 2022), that she recently translated together with Tyra Díez. At the event, readers shared their experience of the novel with the translator.
23 April 2023
Lletres Xineses, the contests seeking to promote the engagement of young readers with Chinese literature and culture, announced the names of the awarded participations on April 23. The contest received more than 400 works in its different categories, drawing and writing (primary schools) and booktrailer (secondary schools) […]
18 April 2023
DigiTrans team members Maialen Marin-Lacarta and Belén Cuadra Mora took part in the webinar “Contemporary Chinese Literature and Translation” organized by Casa Asia on 18 April. DT member Manuel Pavón-Belizón hosted the roundtable […]
24 March 2023
DigiTrans principal researcher Maialen Marin-Lacarta and member researcher Chuan Yu have taken on the editorship of a special issue for translation studies landmark journal The Translator. This dossier will delve into questions of ethographic research in translation. […]
5 March 2023
Our monthly newsletter in partnership with China Traducida has accomplished one year of publication. Since its first issue in March 2022, our newsletter has offered our followers and subscribers a window into all things related to Chinese literature in translation, becoming the best way to keep updated about the developments of translated Chinese literature in the Spanish-speaking world. We thank our team and our collaborators. Cheers to many more issues!
15 May 2023
DigiTrans member Manuel Pavón-Belizón has successfully defended his PhD thesis, The Translation and Circulation of Contemporary Chinese Humanities and Social Sciences in European and North American Contexts (1989-2018), on 3 March 2023 at Universitat Oberta de Catalunya in Barcelona.
13 January 2023
DigiTrans member Henry Jones (University of Manchester) shared with DT fellows his most recent research project on Wikipedia and the translation of medical knowledge translation in a Work-in-progress on 13 January 2023. […]
29 November 2022
Organized as part of the Lletres Xineses contest, this talk reunited Sara Rovira-Esteva and Mireia Vargas Urpí, translators and experts in the work of Sanmao, moderated by Maialen Marin-Lacarta, translator and PR of the DigiTrans project. […]
9 November 2022
DigiTrans China, with the funding of Fundació Institut Confuci de Barcelona and in collaboration with the Catalan Government’s Department of Education, the City Council of Barcelona, Eix Fort Pienc and Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC), launches Concursos Lletres Xineses, two contests seeking to promote the engagement of young readers in the Barcelona area with Chinese literature and culture.
More info in the contest’s official website (in Catalan).
7 November 2022
On 7 November 2022, DT member Antonio Paoliello offered a seminar on Sinitic languages and Sinophone literatures at the historic L’Orientale-University of Naples.
5 November 2022
DT member Chuan Yu has published the monograph Online Collaborative Translation in China and Beyond: Community, Practice, and Identity (Routledge, 2022). As the publisher states, “in this original and innovative work, Yu boldly tackles the increasingly influential collaborative translation […]
5 October 2022
DigiTrans collaborates in a new edition of the Chinese Literary Talks organized by Casa Asia and the Barcelona Confucius Institute Foundation (FICB). Between October 2022 and January 2023, DT member Belén Cuadra will conduct […]
25 July 2022
DT member Ester Torres-Simón, together with Hanna Pięta and Rita Bueno Maia, has edited the pathbreaking volume Indirect Translation Explained (Routledge, 2022), a book that will open new roads into the usually disregarded topic of indirect translation. […]
8 July 2022
On 28 June 2022, DT’s principal investigator Maialen Marin-Lacarta participated as lecturer in the biannual Translation Research Summer School organized by the Baker Centre for Translation & Intercultural Studies, Shanghai International Studies University. […]
13 May 2022
On 13 May, Belén Cuadra, lecturer at the University of Granada and DT member, presented to group members part of her ongoing predoctoral research on the linguistic aspects of literary translation from Chinese into Spanish that she will shortly present at 2nd International Congress on Translation and Gender at the University of Málaga (Spain).
12 May 2022
Paper Republic, the leading website on Chinese literature in English, published an interview by Jack Hargreaves with DigiTrans members Maialen Marin-Lacarta, Belén Cuadra and Manuel Pavón-Belizón about their relationship to the Chinese language, the books they’ve translated, and the translation collectives they collaborate with.
5 March 2022
DigiTrans will collaborate with China Traducida, a well-established pioneering Spanish website on Chinese literature and thought, to offer a monthly newsletter. Beginning March 2022, the DT Newsletter will compile all news about Chinese literature in Spain and Latin America […]
26 November 2021
In an internal seminar organised by the ALTER research group at UOC on 26 November , DigiTrans principal investigator Maialen Marin-Lacarta presented the main aspects of the project. The aim of the seminar was to get feedback from seasoned researchers and ideas at the conceptual or organisational level.
