A Discussion with Ken Liu: April 10

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Betrayal With Integrity: Conformance and Estrangement in Translating Chinese Science Fiction


Ken will be discussing translation theory as applied to the specific case of Chinese works of SF, with a special emphasis on the origins of Chinese SF through translation, THREE BODY, and its reception by readers in the Wes. He will conclude the talk with an extension of the theoretical framework of “translation” to his own original works.