翻译系

Dr. TONG Man, Jasmine

Dr. TONG Man, Jasmine

Post

Part-time Lecturer and Part-time Project Supervisor

 

Academic Qualifications

BA (PolyU), PhD (PolyU)

 

Email

[email protected]

Biographical Note

Dr. TONG Man, Jasmine is a literary translator and translation studies lecturer with over two decades of experience in Hong Kong's tertiary education sector, currently teaching part-time across several institutions. Translates Hong Kong literature into English, with two book-length translations published in the Chinese University Press Hong Kong Literature Translation Series, and writes bilingual short fiction exploring the city's everyday life, several pieces of which have appeared in Cha: An Asian Literary Journal. Research and teaching interests include translation criticism, literary translation, and research methodology, alongside a long-standing engagement with Hong Kong literature and culture.

Selected Translations

  1. (2024) English translation of Xi Xi 西西's《猿猴誌》as The Monkey Chronicles (sponsored by the Hong Kong Arts Development Council). Published by the Chinese University Press.

  2. (2020) English translation of Ye Si 也斯's novella《淹死者的超度》as "Drowned Souls" (sponsored by the Hong Kong Arts Development Council). Published by the Chinese University Press in Dragons: Short Fiction of Leung Ping-kwan.

  3. (2018) Chinese translation of poems from The Gods Came Afterwards by Sharmistha Mohanty. Published in Voice & Verse Poetry Magazine《聲韻詩刊》, Issue 41, November 2018.

  4. (2017-2020) Chinese translation of Charles Bernstein's "The Body of the Poem," and of Ilaria Maria Sala's Lantau Island; published in PEN Hong Kong (Chinese), Jan/Feb 2020.

  5. (2015) Chinese translation of four English poems by Amiri Baraka. Published in Voice & Verse Poetry Magazine《聲韻詩刊》, Issue 26, October 2015.

  6. (2008) Chinese translation of the first volume of Mervyn Peake's Gormenghast trilogy 歌門鬼城三部曲之首部, Lianjing Publishers, Taiwan.

  7. (2008) Chinese translation of 韋婭's children's poetry collection 手心裏的星月 as The Stars and the Moon in My Palm, Peace Book Company, Hong Kong.

  8. (2007) "Postcards from Prague," in Islands and Continents: Short Stories by Leung Ping-kwan, edited by John Minford with Brian Holton and Agnes Hung-chong Chan, Hong Kong University Press.

  9. (2004) Chinese-English translation of 韋婭's bilingual poetry collection 濕月亮 as Wet Moon, Fire Fly Company, Hong Kong.

  10. (1998) Co-translator of a series of poems by Hong Kong poet P.K. Leung (梁秉鈞) for a poetry-fashion event at the Hong Kong Museum of Art, including "Alice Falling Down" and "The Birth of the New Aesthetics," published in Clothink, Catalogue, Fringe98.

  11. (1996) "Midnight Swim" by Louise Wakeling, translated as 夜半游泳, in Footprints on Paper 紙上的腳印, edited by Robyn Ianssen & Yiyan Wang, pp. 70-73, Robyn Ianssen Production, Sydney.

Journal Articles

  1. Tong, J. & Morgan, D. (2021). "Twice Bitten - Two Men and a Translation: The Making of the Stone", in Babel online, 17 November 2021.

  2. Tong, J. (2014). "On Tang Xinmei's Translation of A Farewell to Arms", in Journal of Modern Literature in Chinese, No. 11.2, pp. 129-145, Spring 2014, Hong Kong.

  3. Tong, J. (2011). "The Identity of Translator and Its Influence on Translation: On Eileen Chang's Translation of The Old Man and the Sea", in Legacy and Transformation of Hong Kong Literature, Hong Kong: Infolink, pp. 265-276.

  4. Tong, J. & Morgan, D. (2005). "Freedom of Expression in Chinese versus the Dictatorship of English Syntax and Other Issues Arising Out of Wei Ya's Volume of Poetry for Children, 'Wet Moon' ('Shi Yueliang')", in ACTAS-IX Simposio Internacional de Comunicación Social, Santiago de Cuba, 24-28 January 2005, Centro de Lingüística Aplicada, pp. 236-238.

  5. Minford, J. & Tong, J. (1999). "Whose Strange Stories?", in East Asian History, No. 17/18, pp. 1-49, June/December 1999, Institute of Advanced Studies, Australian National University.

Conference Papers and Talks

  1. "Translating Hong Kong", talk at the Civil Service Bureau of Hong Kong, August 2026.

  2. "Translating Martial Arts Fiction", talk at the Civil Service Bureau of Hong Kong, June 2024.

  3. "Tang Xinmei The Translator of A Farewell to Arms", International Academic Conference on Hong Kong Literature and Culture of the 1950s, Lingnan University, Hong Kong, May 2013.

  4. "Alice in Wonderland Traveling to China", Fourth Lingnan-Tsinghua Translation Symposium, December 2010.

  5. "Freedom of Expression in Chinese versus the Dictatorship of English Syntax and Other Issues Arising Out of a Translation of Wei Ya's Volume of Poetry for Children, 'Wet Moon' ('Shi Yueliang')", IX International Symposium on Social Communication, Centre for Applied Linguistics, Santiago de Cuba, 2005. With David Morgan.

Creative Writing

Bilingual (Chinese-English) short stories of Hong Kong, each with the author's own illustration, published in Cha: An Asian Literary Journal, Hong Kong:

  1. "Mimi" (June 2023)

  2. "A Sailor on the Ferry" (July 2023)

  3. "Orange and Buji" (September 2023)

  4. "Big Sister Ping" (September 2023)