Prof. LI Bo

Biographical Note

Bo Li, PhD in Translation, is Associate Professor at Lingnan University in Hong Kong. His research interests include translation history, literary translation, translation and gender. He is currently the Principal Investigator of four research projects funded by the Research Grant Council of Hong Kong. His publications have appeared in Translation and Interpreting Studies, Perspectives: Studies in Translation Theory and Practice, Babel, Comparative Literature Studies, Media History, etc.

Research Interests

• History of Translation
• Literary Translation
• Translation Theories
• Translation and Gender
• Interpreting

Competitive External Grants

1. Research Grants Council General Research Fund (Hong Kong), Interpreters for the Chinese Labour Corps during WWI, Principal Investigator, HKD 290,000;
2. Research Grants Council General Research Fund (Hong Kong), Transadvertising Western medicine in The Chinese Mail (1895-1940), Principal Investigator, HKD 283,209;
3. Research Grants Council General Research Fund (Hong Kong), USIS-Commissioned Translations in Hong Kong against the Background of the Cold War in the 1950s, Principal Investigator, HKD 268,800;
4. Research Grants Council Early Career Scheme (Hong Kong), Serialized Literary Translation in Hong Kong Chinese Newspapers (1900-1911), Principal Investigator, HKD 337,405;

Journal Articles

1. Li, B. (E-pub ahead of print) Political motivation in media interpreting: 2020 US Presidential Debates livestreamed by two Taiwanese TV stations, Translation and Interpreting Studies; https://doi.org/10.1075/tis.21049.li
2. Yuan, Zhen & Bo Li. (E-pub ahead of print) Rewriting women in literary translation : With Reference to Literary Translation in The Chinese Mail (1904–1909), Media History, https://doi.org/10.1080/13688804.2024.2443394
3. Li, B & Yuan Liu. (2025 forthcoming) Ethical Issues in Translation Education in the AI Era. In Translation Studies in the Age of Artificial Intelligence, edited by Sanjun Sun, Kanglong Liu, Riccardo Moratto. London: Routledge.
4. Li, B. (2023) Ethical issues for literary translation in the era of Artificial Intelligence. Babel, 69(4):529-545; https://doi.org/10.1075/babel.00334.li
5. Li, B. (2022). USIS-funded Literary Translation in Hong Kong in the Cultural Cold War: A Study of Literary Translations in World Today (1949-1952). Perspectives: Studies in Translation Theory and Practice, 30(6):941-956; https://doi.org/10.1080/0907676X.2022.2046821
6. Li, B. (2022). Heteroglossia, Liminality, and Literary Translation. The Art of Translation in Light of Bakhtin’s Theory of Re-accentuation (eds.) Slav N. Gratchev and Margarita Marinova. New York: Bloomsbury Academic Publisher, pp 57-78. https://doi.org/10.5040/9781501390265.ch-003
7. Li, B. (2022). Transadvertising of Western pharmaceutical products in The Chinese Mail (1895–1910). Perspectives: Studies in Translation Theory and Practice. 30(2):343-359; https://doi.org/10.1080/0907676X.2021.1887300
8. 李波. （2022）香港早期文學期刊連載的翻譯研究：以《新小說叢》（1907-1908）為例. 《翻譯學報》，6（1）: 53-77。
9. Li, B.& Yuan Zhen. (2021). Literary Translation as a Touchstone of the Exchanges between Western and Chinese Medical Cultures: A Case Study of Qi Wang Hui (1905-1906). Journal of Translation Studies. 5 (1) 93-114.
10. Li, B. (2020). Translating Forensic Science in Detective Stories in Early Hong Kong Chinese Newspapers. Comparative Literature Studies. 57(4), 626-639. https://doi.org/10.5325/complitstudies.57.4.0626
11. 李波 （2020）. 同志文學翻譯之敘事建構: 以白先勇作品《孽子》的英譯為例. 《人文中國學報》. NO.29.頁277-295
12. Li, B. (2020). (Re)Framing Gay Literature through Translations, Reprints and Cross-Medium Retranslations: With Reference to Pai Hsien-yung’s Crystal Boys. TranscUlturAl: A Journal of Translation and Cultural Studies 12 (1), pp 158-172; https://doi.org/10.21992/tc29475
13. 李波 (2020). 20 世纪初香港中文报纸连载的翻译文学: 以《香港华字日报》(1904-1909) 为例. 《翻译史论丛》, 2, 141-153.
14. Yuan, Zhen & Li, Bo (2020). The Study of Translation in Periodicals : Past, Present and Future. Translation Quarterly, 96, pp 55-68;
15. 李波 (2020). 口译情境化主题教学中术语表的功能: 一项基于香港城市大学本科口译课堂的研究. 《上海翻译》, (6 (总第155期)), 51-55.
16. Li, B. (2019).  Serialized Literary Translation in Hong Kong Chinese Newspapers: A Case Study of The Chinese Mail (1904-1908). Translation and Interpreting Studies 14(2), pp 306–324; https://doi.org/10.1075/tis.00043.li
17. Li, B (2015). Subtitling Made in Hong Kong and Missing Heteroglossia. Chapter 11, Translation and Academic Journals: The Evolving Landscape of Scholarly Publishing (ed.) Yifeng Sun. New York: Palgrave Macmillan.  https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137522092_12
18. Li, B. (2013). The Manipulation of Images of Women in Translation in Early 20th Century Hong Kong Chinese Newspapers, Media History 19(3), pp 270-283; https://doi.org/10.1080/13688804.2013.817835

Monograph

• The Bakhtinian Approach to Translation Studies: Bakhtinian Thoughts and Translation Studies (《翻譯研究的對話性路徑——巴赫金思想與翻譯研究》).  Beijing: China Social Sciences Press, 2017