Profile of Associate Professor Xiong Bingjiao

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    ​Name: Xiong Bingjiao

    ​Title: Associate Professor

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    ​Email: xbj_2003@126.com

1. Introduction

Basic Information:

Xiong Bingjiao is an associate professor of Translation Studies at the School of Foreign Languages, Jiangxi University of Finance and Economics, and currently a Council Member of the Translators Association of Jiangxi Province. Under the guidance of Professor Xie Tianzhen, she obtained her PhD in Translation Studies from Shanghai International Studies University in 2009. She did her research as a visiting scholar at the Faculty of English Language and Literature at Oxford University between 2018 and 2019.  

Research Directions: Translation Theory, Literary Translation History, and Translations of Foreign Literature in Modern China

2. Teaching Experience

    Courses Taught:

Undergraduate: Translation Practice, English Essay Reading, Academic Writing

MA Students: Theories in Western Translation Studies, Academic Research Methodology and Writing, Translation of Writings for Specific Purposes

3. Research Achievements

       Projects:

      “English Translation Project of Introducing Medio-translatology”, Sponsored by the National Social Science Foundation of China (2020-2022, as Project Director)

      “English Translation of National Images of China: An Investigation of Its Acceptable and Communicative Strategies”, Sponsored by the National Social Science Foundation of China (2017-2020, as Main Participant)          “Studies in Chinese Translations of Foreign Literature (1931-1945)”, Sponsored by the Humanities & Social Sciences Fund of the Ministry of Education, China. (2012-2017, as Project Director)

      “Interface Studies of English Varieties and Cultural Identity”, Sponsored by the Humanities & Social Sciences Fund of the Ministry of Education, China. (2013-2017, as Main Participant)

      “English Romantic Poetry: A Narrative Account”, Sponsored by the Social Sciences Research Fund of Jiangxi Province (2011-2013, as Main Participant)

Papers:

XIONG Bingjiao. Book Review: A History of Studies in 20^th Century Chinese Translation History. Chinese Translators Journal, 2018:5.

XIONG Bingjiao. “Exploring Literary Translation in ‘Island Shanghai’ with the Exemplary Case of Foreign Literature (Xiyang Wenxue)”, Journal of Anhui University (Humanities and Social Sciences Edition), 2014: 3.

XIONG Bingjiao. “Reconstruction of Textual Meaning by the Translator’s Sociality and Historicity: A Case Study of Two Chinese Versions of Jennie Gerhardt”, Translation Quarterly, 2013, 68.

XIONG Bingjiao. “Transference of Textual Meaning in Translation from the Perspective of Thematic Structure”. Foreign Language and Culture Studies (No.9). Shanghai: Shanghai Foreign Language Education Press, 2012.

XIONG Bingjiao. “On Limitation of Poetry’s Translatability and Re-presentation of the Poetic Tension in Wang Zuoliang’s Poetry Translation”. Foreign Language and Culture Studies (No.8), Shanghai: Shanghai Foreign Language Education Press, 2011.

XIONG Bingjiao. “Obtrusion of the Translator’s Sociality and Historicity: A Case Study of Two Translated Versions of Gone with the Wind”. Journal of Macao Polytechnic Institute, 2010: 4.

XIONG Bingjiao. “Rethinking the Translator’s Subjectivity”. Journal of Nanjing University of Science and Technology (Humanities and Social Sciences Edition), 2010: 5.

Books Published:

XIONG Bingjiao. “Arts and Translation,” In A Textbook of Complete Chinese-English Translation, Beijing: National Defense Industry Press, 2014.

XIONG Bingjiao. “Culture and Translation,” In A Course on Writing and Translating for Postgraduate Students of English, Jiangxi: Jiangxi Education Press, 2011.

XIONG Bingjiao. “Style and Translation,” In A Course on Writing and Translating for Postgraduate Students of English, Jiangxi: Jiangxi Education Press, 2011.

XIONG Bingjiao. “Discourse and Translation,” In A Course on Writing and Translating for Undergraduate Students of English, Beijing: Peking University, 2010. (as Associate Editor-in-Chief)

XIONG Bingjiao. “Text Typology and Translation Strategies,” In A Course on Writing and Translating for Undergraduate Students of English, Beijing: Peking University, 2010. (as Associate Editor-in-Chief)

XIONG Bingjiao. A Historical Study of Literary Translation in China in the Second Sino-Japanese War (1931-1945). New York: Peter Lang.(forthcoming) 

XIONG Bingjiao. The Translator’s Subjectivities Explained from Practical Philosophy. Beijing: China Book Press, 2016.

XIONG Bingjiao. Trans. Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea. Beijing: China Book Press, 2016.

XIONG Bingjiao. Trans. George Gordon Byron, etc., Selected English Letters and Diaries. Beijing: China Book Press, 2015.

XIONG Bingjiao. Trans. David Thoreau, Walden. Beijing: China Book Press, 2015.