Keynote Speakers

Prof. Hu Kaibao is the Dean of the Institute of Corpus Studies and Applications, Shanghai International Studies University. He holds a doctorate in English Language and Literature from Nanjing University, China, and has taught a variety of subjects including English-Chinese Translation, and Translation Theory and Practice. His main research interests are corpus-based translation studies and critical translation studies. He has been involved in the compilation of the English-Chinese Parallel Corpora of Shakespeare’s Plays, the Chinese-English Conference Interpreting Corpus and the Chinese-English Parallel Corpus of Political Texts in the past five years. He is author of the Historical Text of English-Chinese Dictionaries and the Evolution of the Chinese Language (Shanghai Yiwen Press 2005) , Introducing Corpus-based Translation Studies (Springer, 2015), A Corpus-based Study of the Chinese Translations of Shakespeare’s Plays (Shanghai Jiao Tong Press, 2015) , A Corpus-based Study of Chinese-English Conference Interpreting (Foreign Language Teaching and Research Press, 2015), Corpus-based Translation Studies (Shanghai Jiao Tong Press, 2017) and Introducing Corpus-based Critical Translation Studies (Higher Education Press, 2017). He has published more than 80 research articles with Meta, Perspectives, Foreign Language Teaching and Research, Foreign Language Journal and The Chinese Translators’ Journal, etc.