Cynthia Sau-kuen started following the work of Melody Yunzi Li, Washington University in St. Louis, Comparative Literature.
Cynthia Sau-kuen started following the work of John T. Gilmore, University of Warwick, English Literature and Comparative Literary Studies.
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Faculty Member, School of Chinese
Assistant Professor (Translation Programme)
Thesis Title: “Translation: Unlocking the Mystique of Change—a theoretical experiment on ‘translation’ as ‘postcolonial identity’ in cultural globalization, with a case study on Hong Kong postcoloniality through the Infernal Affairs film series” (University of Warwick 2010)
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About
My doctoral thesis explores the autonomy in the concept of "translation" through a theoretical inspection, drawing resources from translation studies and cultural studies. The outcome suggests that 'translation' is an agent independent of the 'source' and 'target' languages, cultures and texts.
It is an inter-disciplinary project that communicates the theoretical spheres between translation studies and cultural studies. It is also an inter-regional case study that brings the eastern postcolonial model of Hong Kong to the global platform of postcolonialism.
In general, my research focuses on the discipline of “Translation Studies” that puts western theories and eastern case studies together into a comparative, transcultural and interdisciplinary approach in humanistic studies. My teaching centres on literature, multi-media texts, translation and cultures, promoting “translation” from the wider perspective as a “trans-disciplinary” thinking methodology.
