Chang Nam-fung
Professor
Department of Translation
Lingnan University (Hong Kong)
Hong Kong
Biography
Prof. Chang received his B.A. (First-class Honours) and M. Phil. from the University of Hong Kong, and his Ph.D. from the University of Warwick, all in translation studies. He taught translation as Lecturer/Senior Lecturer at the City Polytechnic of Hong Kong for seven years before joining Lingnan in 1994. He won the Stephen C. Soong Translation Studies Memorial Award four times, and also Lingnan University’s Research Excellence Award 2003-2004.
Research Interest
Theoretical translation studies, Humour studies
Publications
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(Criticism of Chinese and Western Translation Theories), Beijing: Tsinghua University Press, 2004, xiv+279pp.
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Yes Prime Manipulator: How a Chinese Translation of British Political Humour Came into Being, Hong Kong: Chinese University Press, 2005, pp. xxi+274pp.
