Is Venus called the star of gold? - Lecture by Youxuan Wang

Is Venus called the star of gold?

- A comparative philosophical approach to meaning and equivalence at word level

Speaker: Youxuan Wang, University of Portsmouth

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Date: Tuesday, 28th January 2014
Time: 4-5 pm
Location : University College of London, Sir David Davies LT, Roberts G08, Torrington Place, London WC1E 6BT

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Talk outline:
This presentation considers a somewhat perennial issue in translation studies: the question of meaning. By examining a couple of CSIs in English and Chinese from the different philosophical perspectives of western analytical philosophy and Asian Buddhist philosophy, it seeks to provide two logical criteria of equivalence between ST and TT at word level.

Biography:
Youxuan Wang is a translator, textual scholar and sinologist. From 1981 to 1991, he taught English and translation in Changsha, China. Since 1992, he has been studying, researching and teaching in British universities. In 1990, he published his Chinese translation of Toni Morrison's Pulitzer Prize winning novel Beloved, and the translation is still receiving critical attention in China. Since 1995, his research has focused on the development of logic and semiotics in the Chinese translations of Sanskrit Buddhist philosophical texts. In 2001, he published a monograph, Buddhism and deconstruction: towards a comparative semiotics (Curzon/Routledge). He is currently preparing a critical English translation of some early Chinese Buddhist treatises on logic attributed to Kumārajīva (334–413 CE), Paramārtha (499-569 CE) and Xuanzang (c. 602–664 CE), while lecturing on Chinese and translation at the University of Portsmouth.