Martha Cheung

Martha Pui Yiu Cheung (Chinese: 張佩瑤; 1953–2013) was a researcher and scholar in Translation Studies, Chair Professor in Translation^[1] and Director of the Centre for Translation at Hong Kong Baptist University.^[2] She is best known for the first volume of her Anthology on Chinese Discourse on Translation, published in 2006. She was working on the second volume of the anthology at the time of her death. Professor Cheung was a leading scholar in the internationalisation of Translation Studies, drawing attention to the Eurocentric focus of the discipline and helping to raise the profile of Chinese translation theory.

Scholarly works

• (2005) ‘To Translate’ Means ‘To Exchange’? A New Interpretation of the Earliest Chinese Attempts to Define Translation (‘fanyi’). Target, vol. 17 issue 1, 27-48.
• (2006) An Anthology of Chinese Discourse on Translation. Volume 1: From Earliest Times to the Buddhist Project (edited), Manchester: St Jerome Publishing
• (2009) Chinese Discourses on Translation: Positions and Perspectives (edited). Special issue of The Translator, vol. 15, issue 2
• (2009) Representation, Intervention and Mediation: A Translation Anthologist’s Reflections on the Complexities of Translating China. Translating China. Eds. Luo Xuanmin and He Yuanjian. Bristol: Multilingual Matters, 171-188.
• (2010) Rethinking Activism: The Power and Dynamics of Translation in China during the Late Qing Period (1840-1911), Text and Context: Essays on Translation and Interpreting in Honour of Ian Mason. Eds Baker, Mona, Maeve Olohan and María Calzada Pérez. Manchester: St. Jerome, 237-258.
• (2011) The (un)importance of flagging Chineseness, Translation Studies, vol. 4, issue 1, 41-57
• (2011) Reconceptualizing Translation – Some Chinese Endeavours, META: Journal des traducteurs vol. 56, issue 1, 1-19.
• (2012) The mediated nature of knowledge and the pushing-hands approach to research on translation history, Translation Studies, vol. 5, issue 2, 156-171

Translations

• Han Shaogong, Homecoming? And Other Stories, 1992
• Liu Sola, Blue Sky Green Sea and Other Stories, 1993
• Leung Ping-kwan, Foodscape, 1997
• Leung Ping-kwan, Traveling with a Bitter Melon, 2002

For more translations by Cheung see Fan Min's review of the Anthology online.^[3]

Secondary Sources

• Douglas Robinson, ed., The Pushing-Hands of Translation and its Theory: In Memoriam Martha Cheung, 1953-2013. London and Singapore: Routledge, 2016.

References

External links

• In Memoriam Prof. Martha Cheung
• Review of Anthology of Chinese Discourse on Translation
• Academia.edu page for Professor Cheung
• Lecture by Martha Cheung 'From the Sublime to the Ridiculous: Some Thoughts on Literary Translation