Wenze
Hu
received his BA in English Language and Literature from the Beijing Foreign
Languages Institute (1982). He received his MA and PhD in Chinese Linguistics
from Ohio State University in 1989 and
1995 respectively. He then taught for 10 years at the Department of East AsianLanguages and Civilizations at Harvard University.
He is now an Associate Professor at the United States Naval Academy. His research interests include Chinese syntax, pragmatics, and
socio-linguistics.
Michelle LeSourd is a Seattle-based Chinese>English
translator, an ATA and CLD member since 2002, and has helped to organize
activities for local Chinese<>English translators and interpreters under
the auspices of Northwest Translators and Interpreters Society. She has a BA in Chinese Language and Literature from Pomona College, a graduate studies certificate from the Hopkins-Nanjing Center forChinese and American Studies, and an
MPA from the University of Washington. She also benefited from the courses at the Translation &
Interpretation Institute at Bellevue College in the Seattle area. Prior to
becoming a freelance translator, she enjoyed an eclectic career in business,
law, and over ten years with the U.S. Department of Education monitoring higher
education grant programs throughout the western states.
Contact: michelle@c2etranslation.com
Aileen Lu is the President of ABLE International. She is
certified in Advanced Translation & Interpretation (Chinese - English) by
the Shanghai Municipal Interpretation Training & Examination Committee. She
is a graduate of University of Shanghai for Science & Technology with a major in Business Management. She has over 15 years of transferable
experience in translation, quality assurance & training and cultural
advice. She specializes in legal, immigration, international business, medical,
quality control, IT, finance, foreign affairs, education, literature and
motorsports. Besides language services, ABLE International offers consulting
services in sourcing, quality assurance, market entry and event management.
Contact:
ableintl@yahoo.com
Frank
Mou
earned his BA in English Language and Literature from East China Normal University in 1977 and MA in Linguistics at the University of Pittsburgh in 1995. As a longtime member of
such professional organizations as Shanghai Interpreters Association (since
1987), the Translators Association of China (since 1990) and American
Translators Association (since 1997), he has been very active in the fields of
translation and interpreting in the past 30+ years. He was elected the first
Administrator of ATA's Chinese Language Division. Now Mr. Mou resides in the USA
and serves as a contract linguist for the Department of State and is one of
only two registered Mandarin court interpreters in the state of Pennsylvania.
As a full-time freelancer, he has translated and edited many official documents
including bilateral/multilateral treaties, protocols, agreements and business
contracts. He has been involved in developing localized websites for both the
private and public sectors, and has compiled several online Chinese-English
dictionaries. He has translated prospectuses and financial statements for many
IPO Chinese companies listed in NYSE and NASDAQ, and coordinated several large
translation projects. Mr. Mou also renders consecutive and simultaneous
interpretation services at courts, international conferences, academic
seminars, and trade negotiations for governments, business and international
organizations. He has interpreted for US Presidents, Chinese Presidents and
other state leaders and dignitaries.
Contact:
FrankMou@gmail.com
Anna Wing Bo Tso, PhD, is a lecturer in English
and Applied Linguistics. She teaches
postgraduate and undergraduate courses at the OpenUniversity of Hong Kong. Her research interests include language arts, children's fantasy,
gender studies and translation studies. She has published articles in various
international journals, including The International
Journal of Early Childhood, Libri
& Liberi: Journal of Research on Children's Literature and Culture, and
SPECTRUM: NCUE Studies in Language,
Literature, Translation and Interpretation.
Contact: atso@ouhk.edu.hk
Xiaonong Wang was born in
1968 in Zibo, China. He received his MA in linguistics from Shandong University
in 2003. He is now completing a PhD program in translation studies in the
College of Foreign Languages at Nankai University. He
is also currently an associate professor at the School of Foreign Languages at LudongUniversity. He has worked
as a translator and teacher of translation for roughly twenty years. Interested
in translation studies from a cognitive perspective, he authored two books on the
study of textual translation on the basis of Cognitive Linguistics, and is also
the author of a book on applying English for practical purposes with special
reference to translation from Chinese into English. He has also published a
series of scholarly papers concerning translation studies and teaching
translation to Chinese EFL majors at the university level. His “Library of
Chinese Classics—Classified Conversations of Master Zhu (Selected
Translations)”, the English translation of a Confucian classic, will be
published later this year.
Contact:
xnwang1726@163.com
Hongbin
Zhang
attended the Beijing Foreign Languages Institute from 1978 to 1985, completing
her undergraduate and graduate studies in English language and literature.
After graduation, she worked first in China’s Ministry of Culture for a year and then in the cultural section of the Chinese Embassy in the U.S.
for three years. From 1993 to the
present, she has served as the General Manager of Donau-Sino Reise. She is also the General Secretary of the Austrian-Chinese FriendshipAssociation as well as the General Secretary of
the Soong Chingling Foundation, both based in Vienna.
2013 Spring Issue
Huilin Gao currently resides just outside Phoenix, Arizona, but was born
and raised in Taiwan where he spent a decade exploring a career as a musician
and recording studio owner. Mr. Gao writes: “I was also a serious gamer; not
only did I play all kinds of games (day and night) I also composed music for
games. As we now have two young children, my wife limits the amount of time I
can spend on music and games. Instead, I translate games and, sometimes,
that means that I have to play them, too. Multimedia is in my blood: I
completed a masters degree program in Communication and Multimedia at Saginaw Valley State University. I
have also worked various freelance multimedia jobs: developing and maintaining
websites for non-profits, publishing community newsletters, and creating
interactive CD-ROMs for both professional and personal use.”
Contact: tw921@yahoo.com
Gang Li is an ATA-certified
English>Chinese freelance translator and a
Georgia-State
certified Mandarin court interpreter. He has over 16 years of full-time freelance experience in the profession, with expertise
in the technical, scientific,
and legal fields. He has a BS from the UniversityofScience and Technology of China, an MS from the University of
Pittsburgh, and a PhD
in physics from the University of Michigan.
Contact: gangli@gangli.info
Bin Liu, an ATA
certified translator, began his English learning in a foreign language boarding
school, attended college and graduate school at the Beijing Foreign LanguagesInstitute, and
graduated with an BA in English and an MA in English & American
Literature. He worked for four years as
an assistant editor of the University's literary translation journal, Foreign Literatures. He later came to America to attend the
graduate school at Loyola University Chicago and the University ofIllinois at Urbana-Champaign. He
graduated with an MA in English and an MA in Comparative Literature,
respectively. After short stints of
employment as a translator at the Wal-Mart Headquarters, the United Nations and
others, he founded his own company, Acumen TransMedia Services, LLC. His
service offerings include translation, interpretation, desktop publishing and
multimedia services in Eastern and Middle Eastern languages.
Contact: acumen@acumentransmedia.com
Professor Yuanxi Ma earned a Ph.D. and an MA in American Literature and Comparative
Literature from the State University of NewYork at Buffalo. She also obtained an MA
in the English language from the Beijing Foreign StudiesUniversity. She has roughly 40 years of
university teaching experience in both TESL and literature. At various educational
institutions in both China and the US she has held the positions of Vice-Chair
of the English Department, Associate Director and Lecturer of the School of
Chinese Studies, and Director of Management and Business Development Program.
In addition to her teaching career, she is a Chinese-English translator and
interpreter. She is an ATA-certified Chinese Translator. She also worked for
ten years as Director of Translation at Baker & McKenzie, LLP, the largest
law firm in the US. She has conducted exchange programs for professors and
college students in China and the US. Her publications include writings on
literature and culture as well as literary and legal translations in books,
journals, and translation collections. She has taken part in the compilation of
English textbooks for use in colleges and universities and for TV programs in
China, and conducted English teacher training programs in both countries.
Contact: yuanxima@gmail.com
Di Wu was born
and raised in Beijing, China and immigrated to the United States as a
teenager. He has Bachelor’s and Master’s
degrees in electrical engineering from the University of Rochester. He works as a Chinese linguist and staff
consultant at ASET International Services in Arlington, Virginia. He has served as
the president of the Midwest Association of Translators and Interpreters (MATI), a regional
chapter of the ATA.
Contact: champlanguage@aol.com
2012 Summer Issue
Eric Chiang is a
Taiwan native and studied Mathematics and French at the City College of New York. He
had a previous career as a software engineer with AT&T. He has done translation and interpretation
for a Buddhist temple in San Francisco since 2003 and is
now a freelance Chinese and French translator and interpreter. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Contact: chiang.eric@ymail.com
Angela Lau grew up in Hong Kong before moving to the United States to
attend graduate school in journalism, later working for the Tampa Tribune in Florida. After moving to San Diego, she covered a
multitude of subjects for the San DiegoUnion-Tribune, a newspaper that has undergone unbelievable
change to adapt to a fickle industry. In the middle of this transformation,
Angela found her next calling – interpreting. She combined her broad knowledge
of the legal system, government, business, medicine, crime, education and
ethnic communities with her language skills to establish a new career. She has
interpreted at conferences and in the Federal and Superior Courts, translated
litigation documents for law firms and FDA approval documentation for major
drug companies, and worked with Chinese delegations at the University ofCalifornia San Diego. She is a native Cantonese and English speaker who is also
fluent in Mandarin. Angela is an award-winning journalist, and writes
simplified and traditional Chinese.
Contact: angela@alaulanguage.com
Bin Liu, an ATA
certified translator, began his English learning in a foreign language boarding
school, attended college and graduate school at the Beijing Foreign Languages Institute, and
graduated with an BA in English and an MA in English & American
Literature. He worked for four years as
an assistant editor of the University's literary translation journal, Foreign Literatures. He later came to America to attend the
graduate school at Loyola University Chicago and the University ofIllinois at Urbana-Champaign. He
graduated with an MA in English and an MA in Comparative Literature,
respectively. After short stints of
employment as a translator at the Wal-Mart Headquarters, the United Nations and
others, he founded his own company, Acumen TransMedia Services, LLC. His
service offerings include translation, interpretation, desktop publishing and
multimedia services in Eastern and Middle Eastern languages.
Contact: acumen@acumentransmedia.com
Congjun Mu is a
Professor of English and Applied Linguistics at the College of Foreign Languages
at the Shanghai Maritime University in China. His current research interests
cover second language writing, applied linguistics, metadiscourse and
translation.
Contact: congjunmu@gmail.com
2011 Winter Issue
Huilin Gao currently resides just outside Phoenix, Arizona, but was born and raised in Taiwan where he spent a decade exploring a career as a musician and recording studio owner. Mr. Gao writes: “I was also a serious gamer; not only did I play all kinds of games (day and night) I also composed music for games. As we now have two young children, my wife limits the amount of time I can spend on music and games. Instead, I translate games and, sometimes, that means that I have to play them, too. Multimedia is in my blood: I completed a masters degree program in Communication and Multimedia at Saginaw Valley StateUniversity. I have also worked various freelance multimedia jobs: developing and maintaining websites for non-profits, publishing community newsletters, and creating interactive CD-ROMs for both professional and personal use.”
Contact: tw921@yahoo.com
Jeff Keller is a native of Michigan, currently lives in Virginia, and has also lived for several years in Beijing and Chicago. He has a BA and MA in Chinese language and literature and has worked as an in-house translator and/or freelance translator from Chinese into English for the past six years.
Contact: jakeller23@gmail.com
Professor Yuanxi Ma earned a Ph.D. and an MA in American Literature and Comparative Literature from the State University of New York at Buffalo. She also obtained an MA in the English language from the Beijing Foreign Studies University. She has roughly 40 years of university teaching experience in both TESL and literature. At various educational institutions in both China and the US she has held the positions of Vice-Chair of the English Department, Associate Director and Lecturer of the School of Chinese Studies, and Director of Management and Business Development Program. In addition to her teaching career, she is a Chinese-English translator and interpreter. She is an ATA-certified Chinese Translator. She also worked for ten years as Director of Translation at Baker & McKenzie, LLP, the largest law firm in the US
Contact: yuanxima@gmail.com
(Barbara) Hua Robinson is a native of Beijing. She holds a BA in International Finance from People’s University of Beijing and an MBA in Accounting from the City University of Seattle. She worked as a Certified Management Accountant before becoming a freelance Interpreter/translator and a business/cultural consultant. She is an ATA-certified Chinese Translator, a State Department Certified Simultaneous Conference Interpreter, and a Professionally Qualified Interpreter for the Federal Court. She believes communication and understanding are the foundations of peace. She loves to see how different people live in their own cultures. An avid traveler for both work and pleasure, she has visited more than 65 countries.
Contact: hua@goamcan.com
Dr. Rusty Shughart is the Director of Foreign Language Education and Training Programs in the Foreign Language Program Office of the National Intelligence University in Washington, D.C. He is a graduate of Chinese language programs of the Defense Language Institute, the Foreign Service Institute, and the University of Hawaii at Manoa. He has engaged in a wide variety of foreign language education, research, and translation projects on behalf of the U.S. Government and the U.S. Air Force. He is currently assigned as an Air Force Reserve Air Attaché to Japan with recent duty in Singapore.
Contact: rustyshughart@hotmail.com
Di Wu was born and raised in Beijing, China and immigrated to the United States as a teenager. He has Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in electrical engineering from the University of Rochester. He works as a Chinese linguist and staff consultant at ASET International Services in Arlington, Virginia. He has served as the president of the Midwest Association of Translators and Interpreters (MATI), a regional chapter of the ATA.
Contact: champlanguage@aol.com
2011 Summer Issue
Eric Chiang is a Taiwan native and studied Mathematics and French at the City College of New York. He had a previous career as a software engineer with AT&T. He has done translation and interpretation for a Buddhist temple in San Francisco since 2003 and is now a freelance Chinese and French translator and interpreter. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Contact: chiang.eric@ymail.com
Riccardo Moratto is an Italian-born professional interpreter and translator whose working languages are Italian, English, Chinese, French, Spanish and Norwegian. He currently lives and works in Taiwan where he is enrolled in a PhD program in Interpreting and Translation Studies. He also works as a freelance interpreter for ICE (Italian National Institute for Foreign Trade) in Taipei and as a contract professor at Fu Jen Catholic University.
Manyee Tang is a Chinese <> English translator and interpreter with extensive experience in software localization and quality assurance. She holds a Certificate in Editing from the University of Chicago as well as a Certificate in Pharmaceutical Medical Writing from the American Medical Writers Association. A native speaker of both Mandarin and Cantonese, Manyee has received formal training from the Inlingua School of Interpretation, the Center for Interpretation and Translation Studies at the University of Hawaii, and the Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Foundation. She is a tutor for the “Medical Translation” course offered by the University of Chicago, and an instructor in the Interpreting Program at Boston University.
Contact: eagonsys@comcast.net
Contact: eagonsys@comcast.net
Darren Wright recently returned from working in China to accept a position as a linguist in the aerospace industry. During the past year, he was the Resident Director for the State Department’s Critical Languages Scholarship (CLS) Program in Beijing and as the Director for the Alliance for Global Education’s Xi’an program at Shaanxi Normal University, where he set the groundwork for the inaugural Xi’an CLS program for summer 2011. Darren has also worked as a Chinese-speaking cruise host along the Yangtze River, an international liaison in the textile industry, a university lecturer, and a Chinese lexicographer for Meaningful Machines. He received his BA in Chinese Studies from Brigham Young University and completed two MAs from the University of Colorado at Boulder in Chinese Literature and East Asian Religions.
Contact: darren@wrightchineselinguist.com
Di Wu was born and raised in Beijing, China and immigrated to the United States as a teenager. He has Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in electrical engineering from the University of Rochester. He works as a Chinese linguist and staff consultant at ASET International Services in Arlington, Virginia. He has served as the president of the Midwest Association of Translators and Interpreters (MATI), a chapter of the ATA.
Contact: champlanguage@aol.com
2011 Spring Issue
Contact: acumen@acumentransmedia.com
Contact: zhaoliping@ymail.com
