Asian Studies Seminar Series: Jane Qian Liu In brief Date - 26 November 2025Venue - Project Room 1.06, 50 George SquareSpeaker - Professor Jane Qian Liu (University of Warwick)Title - The Performative Potential of (Un)Translation: The Untranslated Words in the Short Stories of Yan Ge and Elaine Chiew About the speakerJane Qian Liu is Associate Professor of Translation and Chinese Studies and Head of Translation and Transcultural Studies at University of Warwick. She completed her DPhil in Oriental Studies at University of Oxford, and taught for four years at Beijing Normal University. She also taught modern and contemporary Chinese literature at the University of British Columbia before joining Warwick.She has published in English and in Chinese on modern Chinese literature, translation studies, and comparative literature, including 'Transcultural Lyricism: Translation, Intertextuality, and the Rise of Emotion in Modern Chinese Love Fiction, 1899-1925' (Brill, 2017), of which the Chinese version is coming out by Peking University Press later this year. She has recently completed her second English monograph which examines the obsession with translation in early twentieth-century China. She is associate editor of Comparative Literature & World Literature. She has also published short stories and novellas in English and Chinese.How to attendThis event is free to attend and open to all. No registration is required, simply turn up on the day.Are you interested in studying with us?We are the only university in Scotland to offer full undergraduate and postgraduate degree programmes in both Chinese and Japanese, as well as postgraduate programmes in Korean Studies and East Asian Studies. Find out more about Asian Studies at Edinburgh Tags Asian Studies Nov 26 2025 16.15 - 18.00 Asian Studies Seminar Series: Jane Qian Liu An in-person seminar by Professor Jane Qian Liu (University of Warwick), titled 'The Performative Potential of (Un)Translation: The Untranslated Words in the Short Stories of Yan Ge and Elaine Chiew'. Project Room 1.06 50 George Square University of Edinburgh EH8 9LH Find the venue: 50 George Square
Asian Studies Seminar Series: Jane Qian Liu In brief Date - 26 November 2025Venue - Project Room 1.06, 50 George SquareSpeaker - Professor Jane Qian Liu (University of Warwick)Title - The Performative Potential of (Un)Translation: The Untranslated Words in the Short Stories of Yan Ge and Elaine Chiew About the speakerJane Qian Liu is Associate Professor of Translation and Chinese Studies and Head of Translation and Transcultural Studies at University of Warwick. She completed her DPhil in Oriental Studies at University of Oxford, and taught for four years at Beijing Normal University. She also taught modern and contemporary Chinese literature at the University of British Columbia before joining Warwick.She has published in English and in Chinese on modern Chinese literature, translation studies, and comparative literature, including 'Transcultural Lyricism: Translation, Intertextuality, and the Rise of Emotion in Modern Chinese Love Fiction, 1899-1925' (Brill, 2017), of which the Chinese version is coming out by Peking University Press later this year. She has recently completed her second English monograph which examines the obsession with translation in early twentieth-century China. She is associate editor of Comparative Literature & World Literature. She has also published short stories and novellas in English and Chinese.How to attendThis event is free to attend and open to all. No registration is required, simply turn up on the day.Are you interested in studying with us?We are the only university in Scotland to offer full undergraduate and postgraduate degree programmes in both Chinese and Japanese, as well as postgraduate programmes in Korean Studies and East Asian Studies. Find out more about Asian Studies at Edinburgh Tags Asian Studies Nov 26 2025 16.15 - 18.00 Asian Studies Seminar Series: Jane Qian Liu An in-person seminar by Professor Jane Qian Liu (University of Warwick), titled 'The Performative Potential of (Un)Translation: The Untranslated Words in the Short Stories of Yan Ge and Elaine Chiew'. Project Room 1.06 50 George Square University of Edinburgh EH8 9LH Find the venue: 50 George Square
Nov 26 2025 16.15 - 18.00 Asian Studies Seminar Series: Jane Qian Liu An in-person seminar by Professor Jane Qian Liu (University of Warwick), titled 'The Performative Potential of (Un)Translation: The Untranslated Words in the Short Stories of Yan Ge and Elaine Chiew'.
