格拉斯哥大学-南开大学联合研究生院

Programme Structure:

This programme is taken over two years of full-time study and includes core courses offered by both universities. You will also be required to submit a dissertation.

Nankai University courses may include:

• Simultaneous interpreting
• Literary and cultural translation
• Translation of commerce, laws and diplomacy
• Advanced sight interpreting
• Consecutive interpreting in theory and practice
• Mandarin advanced translation and language study

University of Glasgow course may include:

• Translation Studies in theory and practice
• Research methods in Translation Studies
• Translation technology: terminology management and subtitling
• Approaches to translation and the professional environment 

The programme trains students to be expert translators and interpreters who adhere to the highest professional standards and who are culturally and ethically aware. 

The programme further aims to:

• Provide students with both practical skills and theoretical knowledge;
• Improve students’ knowledge of both Chinese and Anglophone cultures and languages;
• Develop competencies that will allow students to work for language service providers, international businesses, cross-cultural companies and governmental organisations;
• Develop skills to translate a broad range of texts between Chinese and English, including literature, journalistic texts, technical materials, and academic articles; and develop an expertise in interpreting for audiences of international conferences and other cross-cultural and international events.
• The programme balances Translation Studies theory with practical translation work, meaning you will develop both academic and professional skills, preparing you for the translation profession or PhD research in the field.

This programme caters to China’s increasing demand for highly skilled and specialist translators and interpreters across a wide range of industries and on an international level.

You will acquire skills relevant to a variety of careers that may involve translation or require advanced language and communication skills. 

These include:

• Marketing and public relations
• Careers in writing, including publishing, journalism or technical writing
• Language teaching
• International commerce
• Government work
• The creative industries, including TV, film, theatre.

The College of Arts at Glasgow is home to over 6,000 students and a growing international student population of almost 1,000 students from across the globe. We have specialised in the research and teaching since 1451 and developed wide-ranging expertise and world-leading research. It is ranked in the world’s top 100 for Arts and Humanities studies.  

Within the College, the School of Modern Languages and Cultures (SMLC) embraces the subject areas of Comparative Literature, French, German, Hispanic Studies, Italian, Russian/Slavonic Languages, Translation Studies, and English for Academic Study. The School seeks to foster a culture of excellence in research in each area of its activities, thereby fomenting an intellectual climate in which learning and teaching of the highest quality can be delivered. In doing so the School aims to participate fully in the University of Glasgow's mission which is to play a leading role in the intellectual, professional, commercial and cultural life of the local, national, and international communities to which it belongs and with which it interacts.

‌Dr Enza De Francisci is Lecturer in Translation Studies at the University of Glasgow and convenor of MSc Translation Studies of the Glasgow-Nankai Joint Graduate School. She is also assisting with the Leverhulme-funded research network ‘Re-imagining Italianità: opera and musical culture in transnational perspective’ at University College London where she completed her PhD. Enza has published widely on theatre translation, performance history, and dialect literature in several peer-reviewed journals.

Enza has been an AHRC-funded fellow at the Victoria and Albert Museum, where she convened a Shakespeare and Italy learning programme, and has worked as a linguistic consultant at the Italian Cultural Institute and the National Theatre during a recent staging of Pirandello’s dialect play Liolà in a new version by Tanya Ronder, directed by Richard Eyre. 

Key publications

• A “new” Woman in Verga and Pirandello: From Page to Stage (forthcoming);
• Stamatakis, C., Francisci, E., (Routledge, 2017) Shakespeare, Italy, and Transnational Exchange: Early Modern to Present.

Prof. Zhang Zhizhong works at the College of Foreign Languages, Nankai University, and adjunct professor at Institute of Cross Culture and World Literature, Tianjin Normal University. He also works as the director and English secretary general of World Association for Chinese Studies.

He holds a PhD in Translation of Classics and Translation Theories from Nankai University (2005), an MA in English and American Literature from Tianjin Foreign Studies University (1996), and a BA in English Language and Literature from Zhengzhou University (1989).

Prof. Zhang’s research interest lies particularly in the translation of Chinese poetry into English. He has published over 100 books as well as 100 academic papers. Also, he has undertaken 2 projects funded by the National Office of Philosophy and Social Sciences of China and 1 key project funded by the Tianjin Office of Philosophy and Social Sciences.

Key Publications

Xu Yuanchong and the Art of Translation (2006 ), Hubei Education Press;

A Comparative Study of the English Translation of Mao Zedong Poems (2008), China Social Sciences Press;

An Aesthetics Study of C-E Poetry Translation (2015), The Commercial Press;

Selected Poems of Han Yu (Chinese-English) (2015), The Earth Culture Press;

300 Tang Poems (Chinese-English) (2016), The Earth Culture Press;

Gems of Chinese Poetry (Chinese-English) (2016), The Earth Culture Press;

Selected Poems of Duan Guang’an (2018), American Academic Press;

800 Tang Quatrains (Chinese-English) (2019), Wuhan University Press;

Between Mountains and Waters (2019), American Academic Press;

Poetic Yangzhou: Classical Poems and Couplets About Yangzhou (Chinese-English) (2020), Foreign Language Teaching and Research Press.