Translating Modernity: The Migration of Western Ideas to China at the Turn of the 20th Century

Outputs by Qing Cao

Edited Books & Journal Special Issues

2021 (co-edited with Margolies, David), Utopia and Modernity in China: Contradictions in Transition, Pluto Press, forthcoming.

2019 (co-edited with Wu, Doreen & Tomaselli, Keyan) Brand China in the Media: Transformation of Identities, Routledge, 242 pp.

2017 (co-edited with Wu, Doreen) Modern Chinese Identities at the Crossroads, special issue of Critical Arts: South-North Cultural and Media Studies, 31 (6): Routledge.

Articles & Book Chapters

2021, 'The Lure of Utopia: Reinterpreting Liang Qichao's Xinmin Shuo', in Margolies, David & Cao, Qing (eds.), Utopia and Modernity in China: Contradictions in Transition, Pluto Press, pp. forthcoming.

2021 'Translating "Nation" in Late Qing China: The Discourse and Power of Nation in the Remaking of Chinese Society, 1895-1911', in Almanna, A. & Gu, C. L. (eds.), Translation as a Set of Frames, Routledge, pp. forthcoming.

2019 'Discursive Construction of National and Political Identities in China', in Shei, Chris (ed.), The Routledge Handbook of Chinese Discourse Analysis, Routledge, pp. 431-443.

2019 (co-authored with Wu, Doreen & Tomaselli, Keyan) 'Introduction: Continuities and Changes for an Alternative Modernity', in Cao, Qing, Wu, Doreen & Tomaselli, Keyan (eds.), Brand China in the Media: Transformation of Identities, Routledge, pp. 1-8.

2018 'The Adaption of Western Ideas in Late Qing Press: A Translingual Investigation', Social Scientist, 32 (11), pp. 11-19.

2018 'A Corpus-based Investigation of Guomin', Journal of Chinese Sociolinguistics, 31, pp. 13-28.

2017 (co-authored with Wu, Doreen) 'Modern Chinese Identities at the Crossroads: Introduction', Critical Arts: South-North Cultural and Media Studies, 31, pp. 1-8.

2017 'Rupture in Modernity: A Case Study of Radicalism in Late Qing Chinese Press Debate', Critical Arts: South-North Cultural and Media Studies, 31, pp. 9-28.

Papers

11 December 2020
Dr Qing Cao presents paper 'Translating Political Terms in Modern China: An Epistemological Revolution' at the International Workshop on 'Discourse in and about China' organised by the Brussels Center for Chinese Discourse Studies.

26-27 November 2020
Dr Qing Cao presents paper 'Translating Nation in Late Qing China' atthe international conference 'Translation: New Narratives, Diverse Approaches and Rewriting' at Wasit University, al Kut, Iraq.

30 November 2019
Dr Qing Cao presents paper ‘Translating Concepts through Graphic Loans: The Case of Guomin in Late Imperial China’ at the workshop on Proletkult, School of Advanced Studies, London.

16-17 November 2019
Dr Qing Cao organises the panel ‘A Comparative Study of Modernities in a Global Context' and presents paper ‘Materiality and Spirituality in the Transmission of Western Ideas in Early-20th-Century China’ at the 8th International Forum on Marxist Aesthetics: Contemporary Aesthetics and Studies of Material Culture, Zhejiang University, China.

• A Comparative Study of Modernities in a Global Context (.pdf)
• 8th International Forum on Marxist Aesthetics: Contemporary Aesthetics and Studies of Material Culture (.pdf)

21 September 2019
Dr Qing Cao presents paper ‘Linguistic Construction of "National People" in Late Qing’ at the International Conference of Chinese Sociolinguistics, Shanghai, China (20-22 September 2019).

3 May 2019
Dr Qing Cao presents paper ‘Is Democracy a Priority in the May Fourth Movement? A Corpus-based Investigation of La Jeunesse' at the international conference A Political, Social and Cultural Look at a Turning Point in the History of Modern China, Université de Mons, Belgium (2-4 May 2019).

21 March 2019
Dr Qing Cao presents on ‘Late Qing Press: Why It Still Matters’ at the China Media Centre, University of Westminster.

21-22 March 2018
Dr Qing Cao presents paper ‘The adaption of Western Ideas in Late Qing Press: A Translingual Investigation’ at the International Symposium on Translingual and Transcultural Studies which he co-organised at the College of Media and International Culture, Zhejiang University, Zijingang Campus, Hangzhou, China.

• International Symposium on Translingual and Transcultural Studies (.pdf)
• Conference report (.pdf)

1 February 2018
Dr Qing Cao gives lecture 'The Transmission of Political and Cultural Ideas in China's Modern Press' at the China Media Centre, University of Westminster.

18 January 2018
Dr Qing Cao gives lecture 'The Late Qing Press Debate and Its Impact on Modern China' in the Global Sinology Lecture Series at the Centre for Chinese Studies, National Library, Taipei, Taiwan.

3-5 November 2017
Dr Qing Cao gives keynote lecture 'New Episteme in Late Qing China and Its Impact on Modernity Discourse' at the 7th International Conference on New Discourses in Contemporary China in Nanchang, Jiangxi Province.

14-16 July 2017
Dr Qing Cao gives paper 'Translation and Cultural Identities: An Investigation of the Differences between Chinese and English Syntax and its Implications for Sociocultural Identities and Intercultural Communication' at the 3rd Biennial Conference on Language Typology in China and the World, Shanghai International Studies University, Shanghai, China.

27-29 June 2017
Dr Qing Cao presents paper ‘Remoulding the Chinese Mind: Modernity, Utopia and Social Change in Late Qing China’ at the International Symposium of Language Communication and Civilization Dialogue at the University of Oxford.

7 June 2017
Dr Qing Cao presents on 'Translating Modernity into China in the Early 20th Century' at the School of Advanced Study, University of London.

11 April 2017
Dr Qing Cao presents on 'Mass Media and Modernity in Early 20th-Century China' at the University of Milan, Italy.

1 March 2017
Dr Qing Cao presents paper 'Liang Qichao and His Polemic Press: The Debate that Changed China' at the China Media Centre, University of Westminster.

26 February 2017
Dr Qing Cao presents on 'The Great Break and China’s Cultural Heritage’ at the Midlands China Summit in Birmingham.

3 December 2016
Dr Qing Cao presents 'A Corpus-based Study of Late Qing Press' at The 3rd Global China Dialogue Conference, Lau China Institute, King’s College London.

22 October 2016
Dr Qing Cao presents paper 'Disenchanted Re-enchantment: Utopia and Dystopia in Liang Qichao’s Polemic' at the 5th International Marxist Aesthetics Symposium at Zhejiang University in Hangzhou, China.