Chinese Translation Workshop

COURSE DETAILS

14 Week  Online Course beginning on September 8th
Meets Mondays from 12 – 1:30pm

Translators need community. Every writer knows that you may do the typing alone, but you can’t make your make your work the best it can be without the help of others. Working with others will take your translation to a new level, and critiquing and receiving critique is the best way to develop your skill as a translator.

This worksop will give participants the community they need. Each participant will have multiple opportunities to present their work and receive feedback from their fellow participants and detailed suggestions from the instructor, Stephen Boynton. We will also discuss the resources to use when you get stuck on a translation and some of the classics of translation theory. Although our focus will be on medical texts, participants are welcome to bring in any Chinese text they are working on.

This workshop is intended for people with intermediate to advanced knowledge of Classical or modern Chinese, but you do not need to have any experience translating to join. If you’re uncertain whether this course would be a good fit for you, reach out to Stephen at stephenboyanton@icloud.com for a personal evaluation.

Stephen Boyanton received his PhD in East Asian History from Columbia University, focusing on the medical history of China. He earned his MS in Chinese medicine from Pacific College of Health and Science (formerly Pacific College of Oriental Medicine) and has studied and followed physicians at Beijing University of Chinese Medicine and Chengdu University of Chinese Medicine. He has taught Chinese language, medicine, history, and philosophy for over a decade. His PhD dissertation focused on developments in cold damage theory from 1000-1400, and his research and translations have been published in the Routledge Handbook of Chinese Medicine, the Journal of Chinese Medicine, the journal Ancient Exchanges, and as part of Brill’s Compilation of Chinese Medicine Periodicals Online, 1897-1952. An article of his will appear in the forthcoming anthology From Tang to Song: Transitions and Creations in China’s Middle Period.