Biographical Note
Kin-Ling Tang received her PhD degree in Cultural Studies from The Chinese University of Hong Kong. She is also holder of a master’s degree awarded by the Institut d’études politiques de Paris in France and a MA in Translation and Interpretation awarded by City University of Hong Kong. Prior to joining Lingnan as Senior Lecturer at the Department of Translation in 2018, Dr Tang was a lecturer at the Department of Linguistics and Modern Language Studies at The Education University of Hong Kong. She is proficient in Chinese, English and French, and has some knowledge of German.
Research InterestS
- Politics of Translation
- Indirect Translation
- Cultural Studies of Space
MONOGRAPH
- Tang, K.-L. (2017). Encountering development in the age of global capitalism: A case study. Singapore: Springer [peer-reviewed].
REFEREED Journal Articles
- Tang, K.-L. (2019). Privatization of public space: Spatial practice in the Umbrella Movement. Space and Culture. Vol. 22, Issue 4, pp. 449–459, November 2019 [SSCI journal].
- Tang, K.-L. (2012). A facelift and the body: The production of space in Mui Wo. Projections, 1, 65-80.
BOOK CHAPTER
- 鄧健苓。（2014）。衛生不衛生？從梅窩興建中央排污系統說起，黃慧貞、張歷君、陳澤蕾、高俊傑編。《感／觀日常：跨文化研究讀本》，（353-373）。香港：香港中文大學文化及宗教研究系；進一步多媒體。
Conference Presentations
- (2018). Immaterial Labour in Hong Kong Universities: A Preliminary Discussion.
Workshop on Decolonizing and Deimperializing the University: Transforming the Organizational Infrastructure of Asian Studies, The Education University of Hong Kong, 10 March 2018. - (2017). Politics of Translation: The Travel of Benedict Anderson’s Imagined Communities to Postcolonial Hong Kong.
Fifth Global International Studies Conference 2017, Taipei, 1-3 April 2017. - (2016). The Model Reader of the Chinese Translation of Imagined Communities.
4th Annual International Conference on Contemporary Cultural Studies, Singapore, 28-29 November 2016.
Best Research Paper Award. - (2015). Feeling Small: Privatisation of Public Space in Hong Kong’s Occupy Movement.
Paper presented at Conference on “Between Monumentalism and Miniaturization: Thinking Big and Small in Contemporary Culture”, Centre for Cultural Studies, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, 11-12 June 2015. - (2012a). All Roads Lead to Development, or How Small Paths Lead Us Home.
Paper presented at Culture as Critical Theory Conference, Institute of Ethnology, Academia Sinica, Taipei, 30 September – 1 October 2012. - (2012b). Thou Shalt Take Care of Your Own Waste: Rural Practices in a Global Metropolis and Their Implications.
Paper presented at 2nd Global Conference: Responsible Living: Reflecting on the Ethical Issues of Everyday Life, Inter-Disciplinary.Net, Prague, Czech Republic, 16-18 May 2012. - (2010). Dirt We Need: How Purity Chases Away the Rural.
Paper presented at ACS Crossroads Conference, Lingnan University, Hong Kong, 17-21 June 2010.