缅北禁地

Background

Since obtaining my MA in translation and interpreting from Monterey Institute of International Studies, USA, I have worked as a freelance translator and interpreter. My subject areas of expertise in interpreting include environmental issues, science, energy, accounting, performance arts, education and psychology. I have translated more than 55 English books into Chinese. Most of them are in the areas of environmental literature, popular science, and children’s literature. I have 30 years of experience in English-Chinese subtitle translation and 20 years of experience in game localisation and website translation.

I came to 缅北禁地 for my doctoral study in 2004 and have since been working at the University as a lecturer and researcher.

Qualifications

2009 PhD., Translating & Interpreting, 缅北禁地

1998 MA, Translation & Interpretation, Monterey Institute of International Studies, US

1989 BSc, Soil and Water Conservation with a Minor Subject in Foreign Languages & Literature, National Chung Hsing University, Taiwan

Roles and Responsibilities

2018-present MA Chinese T&I Recruitment team

Previous Positions

2023 (Feb. - July) Acting Director of Postgraduate Research, School of Modern Languages, 缅北禁地

2018-2022 Degree Programme Director of MA Chinese Translating and Interpreting, School of Modern Languages, 缅北禁地

2000-2004, Part-time Lecturer, Interpreting courses, Dept. of Applied English, National Taipei University of Technology

1999-2004, Part-time Lecturer, Translation courses, Continuing Education Center, Chinese Culture University

Honours and Awards

2010: The Sixth WenJin Book Award by National Library of China (中国国家图书馆第六届文津图书奖) with the Chinese Translation of the book 'DNA: The Secret of Life' (DNA:生命的秘密), written by J.D. Watson.

Research Interests

Translation/interpreting studies: especially how emotions and paralinguistics influence interpreters themselves and their interpreting behaviour and performance, how translators/interpreters construe meaning, how their beliefs interact with their cultural identities and learning motivation

Audiovisual translation and video game translation: I am particularly interested in transcreation and multimodal interaction within audiovisual context

Reflective and autonomous learning: I am particularly interested in the role of educational psychology and philosophy plays in translator and interpreter education

Current Work

Completing a monograph on interpreter education: from classroom to workplace

Completing a paper on gender and interpreting

Completing a monograph on multimodality and audiovisual translation with a special focus on game translation

Current PhD students

Chen, Yang - Judicial Interpreting Policies in Chinese Courts, 1912-1949

Cong, Cen - Influence of Interpreters’ Emotion on their Performance in Simultaneous Interpreting

Deng, Yixuan - Translating Female Body, Sexuality and Voice in Modern China: the Case of Xiao Hong into English

Feng, Daisy - Fan Subtitling Representation of Lesbianism from English to Chinese in Anglophone Audiovisual Products

Guo, Anqi - Assessing the Emotional Impact of Subtitles on the Senior Population: An Audiovisual Translation Perspective

Li, Alex - Subtitling Dialect Humour: Strategies, Stereotypes, and Reception

Liao, Chongjun - Exploring Textual Factors Influencing Source Speech Difficulty: A Study on English-Chinese Simultaneous Interpreting Tests

Lin, Alice - A Critical Discourse Analysis of Gender Expressions and the Intersectionality with Class in the Translation of Hong Lou Meng

Robertson, Dariush - Investigating the Chinese – English Translation of Culture Specific Items in the Localisation of a Wuxia Role Playing Video Game

Wei, Feifei - The Dynamics between Verbal and Nonverbal Semiotics in Museum Interpreting: A Multimodal Approach

Wu, Jingyi - A Corpus-based Study of Collocations in Chinese-to-English Consecutive Interpreting

Yang, Songling - The Impact of Anxiety on Student Interpreters’ Self-repair in English to Chinese Simultaneous Interpreting

Yu, Phoebe - Emotional Regulation Strategies in Simultaneous Interpreting

Past PhD students completed

2022 - Cao, X., 'Translating Sexually Explicit Language in Popular Fiction from English into Chinese: Exploring Patterns and Strategies'

2017 - He, Z., 'Multiple Causality of Differences in Taboo Translation of Blockbuster Films by Chinese Fansubbers and Professionals'

2017 - Lin, Y. H., 'How suspense in detective fiction is affected when translated : a case study based on textual analysis of three Chinese translations of The Hound of the Baskervilles'

2017 - Wang, L., 'West Wind: Being “Modern” and “Chinese” through Translation'

2016 - Wang. T.W., 'Discourse markers in English-Chinese Simultaneous Interpreting'

2015 - Nunes Vieira, L., 'Cognitive Effort in Post-Editing of Machine Translation: Evidence from Eye movements, subjective ratings, and Think-Aloud Protocols'

Funding

2023 Research Capital Investment Fund (RCIF) part of the UoA 26 submission for RCIF for the purchase of state-of-the-art research equipment

2022 QR Enhancing Research Culture Fund (QR-ERCF), People Fund, HaSS, 'Investigating societal and emotional challenges facing young female Chinese interpreters in a patriarchal Chinese society'

2021 Covid Recovery Fund, SML, HaSS, 'Investigating societal and emotional challenges facing novice Chinese interpreters'

2021 Covid Support Fund, HaSS , 'Investigating Transcreativity through a Multimodal Analysis of the Translation of in-Game Texts'

2018 HaSS Teaching Development Fund, 'Creating an Interactive On-line Mini Game to Enhance Students' Learning Experience with Game Translation and Employability Prospect'.

2018, ULTSEC Innovation fund, 'Creating an Interactive On-line Mini Game to Enhance Students' Learning Experience with Game Translation and Employability Prospect'.

2015, International Conference Scheme fund, for supporting TTTW-2 conference.

2014, Profile Raising Fund (SML), the 缅北禁地 Interpreting Forum project

2012, Faculty Research Fund, 'Redefining Fidelity in Chinese-English Interpreting'

2011, Faculty REF funding, 'Chinese trainee interpreters' identity conflicts and learning motivation'

2011, UTLC "Just One Thing" project on interpreting assessment and feedback

2009, UTLC Innovation Fund for developing a virtual-learning platform

2008, CCKF PhD dissertation Fellowship for the completion of my PhD.

2004-2007, 缅北禁地 International Postgraduate Scholarship

Postgraduate Teaching

CHN8024 Consecutive Interpreting II
CHN7003 Translating I (module leader)
SML7000 Information Technology for T&I (module leader)
CHN8035 Chinese-English Subtitle and Video Game Translation (module leader)
MA dissertation/project supervision

PhD supervision 

• Article

  • Callicott JB, Chen YY(co-trans.). 保育價值與倫理學[Conservation Values and Ethics]. 鵝湖學誌(Legein Society) 2002, 25, 145-188.

• Authored Books

  • Loewen JW, Chen YY (trans.). . Taipei: UnderTable Publisher, 2015.
  • Pellatt V, Liu E, Chen YY. . London, UK: Routledge, 2014.
  • Chen YY(trans.). . Taipei, Taiwan: Faces Publishing, 2013.
  • Chen YY (trans.). . Taipei: Faces Publishing, 2012.
  • Chen YY (trans.). . Taipei: Faces Publishing, 2012.
  • Hempton G, Grossmann J, Chen YY (trans). . Taipei: Faces Publishing Ltd, 2011.
  • Langer EJ, Chen YY (trans.). . Taiwan: The EURASIAN Publishing Group, 2010.
  • Barrett D, Chen YY (trans.). . Taiwan: The EURASIAN Publishing Group, 2010.
  • Chen YY (trans.). . Taiwan: The Commonwealth Publishing Co, 2007.
  • Chen YY (trans.). . Taiwan: The Trio Publications, CITE Publishing Ltd, 2007.
  • Chen YY (trans.). . Taiwan: The China Times Publishing Co, 2006.
  • Graham I, Chen YY(trans.). 如果你是阿波羅13號太空人[You Wouldn’t Want To Be On Apollo 13!]. Taipei: Salariya Book Company, 2005.
  • Malam J, Chen YY(trans.). 如果你是長毛象獵人[You Wouldn’t Want To Be A Mammoth Hunter!]. Taipei: Salariya Book Company, 2005.
  • Hicks P, Chen YY(trans.). 如果你是美國西部警察[You Wouldn’t Want To Live In A Wild West Town!]. Taipei: Salariya Book Company, 2005.
  • Malam J, Chen YY(trans.). 如果你是羅馬格鬥士[You Wouldn’t Want To Be A Roman Gladiator!]. Taipei: Salariya Book Company, 2005.
  • Malam J, Chen YY(trans.). 如果你是海盜船囚犯[You Wouldn’t Want To Be A Pirate’s Prisoner!]. Taipei: Salariya Book Company, 2005.
  • Green J, Chen YY(trans.). 如果你是極地探險家[You Wouldn’t Want To Be A Polar Explorer!]. Taipei: Salariya Book Company, 2005.
  • Cook P, Chen YY(trans.). 如果你是捕鯨船水手[You Wouldn’t Want To Sail on A 19-Century Whaling Ship!]. Taipei: Salariya Book Company, 2005.
  • Ford M, Chen YY(trans.). 如果你是希臘運動員[You Wouldn’t Want To Be A Greek Athlete!]. Taipei: Salariya Book Company, 2005.
  • Stewart D, Chen YY(trans.). 如果你是埃及木乃伊[You Wouldn’t Want To Be An Egyptian Mummy!]. Taipei: Salariya Book Company, 2005.
  • MacDonald F, Chen YY(trans.). 如果你是哥倫布的小水手[You Wouldn’t Want To Sail With Christopher Columbus!]. Taipei: Salariya Book Company, 2005.
  • MacDonald F, Chen YY(trans.). 如果你是中世紀騎士[You Wouldn’t Want To Be A Medieval Knight!]. Taipei: Salariya Book Company, 2005.
  • Stewart D, Chen YY(trans.). 如果你搭上鐵達尼號[You Wouldn’t Want To Sail on the Titanic!]. Taipei: Salariya Book Company, 2005.
  • Chen YY (trans.). . Taiwan: The Commonwealth Publishing Co, 2005.
  • Chen YY (trans.). . Taiwan: The EURASIAN Publishing Group, 2004.
  • Earle SA, Chen YY(trans.). 珊瑚礁[Coral Reefs]. Taipei: Choice Publishing Company, 2004.
  • Prager EJ, Chen YY(trans.). 火山[Volcano!]. Taipei: Choice Publishing Company, 2004.
  • Chen YY (trans.). . Taiwan: The Choice Publishing Company Ltd, 2004.
  • Tomecek S, Chen YY(trans.). 泥土[Dirt]. Taipei: Choice Publishing Company, 2004.
  • Prager EJ, Chen YY(trans.). 沙子[Sand]. Taipei: Choice Publishing Company, 2004.
  • Chen YY (trans.). . Taiwan: The EURASIAN Publishing Group, 2004.
  • Chen YY (trans.). . Taiwan: The EURASIAN Publishing Group, 2004.
  • Heiligman D, Chen YY(trans.). 寶寶[Babies]. Taipei: Choice Publishing Company, 2004.
  • Prager EJ, Chen YY(trans.). 地震[Earthquakes]. Taipei: Choice Publishing Company, 2004.
  • Chen YY (trans.). . Taiwan: The Commonwealth Publishing Co, 2004.
  • Chen YY (trans.). . Taiwan: The Choice Publishing Company Ltd, 2003.
  • Davis W, Chen YY(co-trans.). 世界的臉譜[Peoples of the World: A Guide to Cultures]. Taipei: Choice Publishing Company, 2003.
  • Chen YY (trans.). . Taiwan: The EURASIAN Publishing Group, 2002.
  • Chen YY (trans.). . Taiwan: Commonwealth Publishing Co, 2001.
  • Chen YY (trans.). . Taiwan: The Walnut Tree Publishing Co, 2001.
  • Chen YY (trans.). . Taiwan: The Yuan-Liou Publishing Company, 2001.
  • Chen YY (trans.). . Taiwan: The Commonwealth Publishing Co, 2001.
  • Chen YY (trans.). . Taiwan: The EURASIAN Publishing Group, 2000.
  • Chen YY(co-trans.). Love愛情. Taipei: Commonwealth Publishing, 2000.
  • Chen YY(co-trans.). Happiness快樂. Taipei: Commonwealth Publishing, 2000.
  • Chen YY (trans.). . Taiwan: The Commonwealth Publishing Co, 1999.
  • Chen YY (trans.). . Taiwan: The Commonwealth Publishing Co, 1999.
  • Chen YY (trans.). . Taiwan: The Commonwealth Publishing Co, 1998.
  • Chen YY (trans.). . Taiwan: The Commonwealth Publishing Co, 1998.

• Book Chapters

  • Chen YY. . In: Huertas-Barros, E; Vandepitte, S; Iglesias-Fernández, E, ed. Quality Assurance and Assessment Practices in Translation and Interpreting. IGI Global, 2019, pp.288-314.
  • Chen YY. . In: Pellatt,V;Liu,E;Chen,YY, ed. Translating Chinese Culture: The Process of Chinese-English Translation. Routledge, 2014, pp.151-166.
  • Chen YY. . In: Pellatt, V., Griffiths, K., Wu, S.C, ed. Teaching and Testing Interpreting and Translating. Oxford and New York: Peter Lang, 2010, pp.81-95.
  • Mench JA, Chen YY(trans.). 農場動物福利 [Farm-Animal Welfare]. In: Bekoff,M;Meaney,CA, ed. 動物權與動物福利小百科[Encyclopedia of Animal Rights and Animal Welfare ]. Taipei: Laureate Book, 2002, pp.173-175.
  • Waldau P, Chen YY(trans.). 工廠化農場(集約飼養)[Factory Farming]. In: Bekoff,M;Meaney,CA, ed. 動物權與動物福利小百科[Encyclopedia of Animal Rights and Animal Welfare ]. Taipei: Laureate Book, 2002, pp.172-173.

• Conference Proceedings (inc. Abstract)

  • Chen YY. . In: The Proceedings of the 2007 International Conference on TESOL and Translation. 2007, Taiwan: Chang Jung Christian University.