Xiaorong Cheng
- Email: mlxch@leeds.ac.uk
- Thesis title: ‘Stones from Other Hills’: Five English Translations of the Shijing in the Anglophone World in the 21st Century
- Supervisor: Dr David Pattinson
Profile
I received my BA in English (2010) and my first MA in English Literature and Language (2014) at Huaqiao University (Quanzhou, Fujian, China). I then earned my second MA degree in Comparative Literatures and Cultures with Distinction at the University of Bristol (2020). I am now doing my PhD project at the University of Leeds, which focuses on the 21st-century English-language translations of the Shijing, the extant earliest collection of poems in China.
Research interests
- classical Chinese poetry translation
- poetry and literary translation
- translation studies
- comparative literature
- comparative poetics
Qualifications
- MA Comparative Literatures and Cultures, University of Bristol
- BA English Literature and Language, Huaqiao University