Professor Bonnie McDougall
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Visiting Professor Bonnie S. McDougall
The Department of Chinese Studies is very pleased to welcome Professor Bonnie S. McDougall, who has been appointed Visiting Professor from August 2010. An outstanding scholar and translator, Professor Bonnie S. McDougall has made extraordinary contributions to the study of China’s modern literature. Born in Sydney, she first studied Chinese at Peking University (1958-59). Academic appointments include teaching and research at Sydney University, followed by SOAS, Harvard, Oslo, the Chinese University of Hong Kong and the City University of Hong Kong. The founding professor of Chinese at the University of Edinburgh in 1990, she was appointed Emeritus Professor in 2006.
While a full-time translator at the Foreign Languages Press in the 1980s, McDougall translated poetry, fiction and film-scripts by new writers emerging through the chaos of the Cultural Revolution, among them Bei Dao, Ah Cheng, Chen Kaige, Gu Cheng, Qiu Xiaolong and Wang Anyi. Her other translations include poetry, fiction, drama and essays by Guo Moruo, He Qifang, Ye Shengtao, Yu Dafu, Ding Xilin and Zhu Guangqian, and Hong Kong fiction and poetry by Xi Xi, Dung Kai Cheung and Leung Bing-kwan. She has taught literary translation at the College of Foreign Affairs in Beijing as well as in the UK and Hong Kong.
Recent books include Love-letters and Privacy in Modern China: The Intimate Lives of Lu Xun and Xu Guangping (Oxford, 2002); Fictional Authors, Imaginary Audiences: Modern Chinese Literature in the Twentieth Century (Hong Kong, 2003); and the translation into English of The King of Trees by Ah Cheng (New York, 2010).
Selected publications
Books
- Translation Zones in Modern China: Authoritarian Command versus Gift Exchange. Cambria Press, Amherst NY, 2011
- The King of Trees, by Ah Cheng, trans. Bonnie McDougall, New Directions, New York. 2010.