Chinese for Social Science Workshop：Post Global China Dialogue Event 2017

Along with China’s increasing influence on the world, it is important to understand how the Chinese government’s policies are reshaping and governing the global community, in addition to understanding Chinese social culture. In this regard, Chinese for Social Science might provide an useful aid for help. ‘Chinese for social sciences’ is in fact ‘Chinese language for Social Sciences’, a branch of ‘Chinese for Specific Purposes’ (CSP), like ‘Chinese for science and technology’ or ‘business Chinese’. In responding to demands from users of our bilingual websites Global China Academy is developing a supplementary course material based on our articles from the Journal of China in Comparative Perspective, material of Global China Dialogue and publications by Global Century Press in both English and Chinese. It aims at serving the purposes of providing better understanding on basic knowledge on China and improving students’ and scholars’ language skills in English or Chinese on social science issues.

Our current work is focused on the following areas:

I. Reading: Intermediate and advanced levels of reading material are derived from articles which will be published in Journal of China in Comparative Perspective.

Chinese for social science – Advanced level reading
Chinese for social science – Advanced level reading
II. English and Chinese bidirectional translation: the English and Chinese bidirectional translation work is for maintain and update our bilingual websites and blogs.

III. Chinese multimedia resources: we will add useful tools from time to time to this section.

IV. Creative English translations of Chinese vocabularies

We are committed to publish the best results of empirical studies of problem-oriented research, theoretical and methodological studies bilingually, in order to engage in-depth communication between Chinese and non-Chinese scholars. Global Century Press (GCP) is the first publisher focusing on bilingual publications of China, the Chinese and non-Chinese perspectives of China in a global context. It publishes the book series Globalization of Chinese Social Science. We are anticipated to introduce Chinese social scientists’ work globally in the framework of the globalization of knowledge, and through consultancy and public engagement to participate in shaping the global society. Global China Dialogue Series (GCDS) annual forum sometimes organices the Post-Dialogue workshop – Chinese for social science, in conjunction with it.

Organizers:

Global China Academy, UK
The Lau China Institute, King’s College London, UK
The China Media Centre, University of Westminster, UK
Chongyang Institute for Financial Studies at Renmin University of China (RDCY), China.

Date: Saturday 2 December

Venue: S0.13, Strand Campus, King’s College London, Ground floor, next the entrance of Strand Campus, London WC2R 2LS

9:30:00-10:00 Registration

10:00-11:15

Chair: Dr Dongning Feng, Senior Lecturer, Former Director of Centre for Translation Studies, SOAS, University of London, UK

Introduction to Chinese for social science (CSS), Professor Xiangqun Chang, President of Global China Academy, UK; Honorary Professor of UCL, UK
Chinese for social science – Intermediate level reading, Ms Lik Suen, SOAS China Institute, University of London, UK
Chinese for social science issues: Categories, Forms of presentation, Resources and suggestions, Dr Lianyi Song, Principal Teaching Fellow, Faculty of Languages and Cultures, SOAS, University of London, UK

Discussion, Q&A

11:15-11:40 Coffee/tea break

11:40-12:40

Difficulties in English and Chinese bidirectional translations: based on the 4th Global China Dialogue brochure, Costanza Pernigotti, Assistant Translator and Editor Global China Institute
Reconstructing the socio-political: translating political discourse , Dr Dongning Feng, Senior Lecturer, Former Director of Centre for Translation Studies, SOAS, University of London, UK

Discussion, Q&A

12:40-12:50 Closing remarks

12:50-14:30 Lunch and network

Contact:

Ms XIONG Yi info@gci-uk.org

This is a free event, click HERE to register

Also see https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/chinese-for-social-science-post-dialogue-workshop–tickets-39809522353

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