La interpretación del chino en los servicios públicos*

¿salida profesional de los estudiantes de chino como lengua extranjera?

Desde hace ya algunos años, la interpretación en los servicios públicos se ha ido consolidando como práctica habitual y necesaria en una gran variedad de contextos: jurídico, sanitario, educativo, social, etc. Paralelamente, la investigación ha ido avanzando y se ha podido definir, a grandes rasgos, el perfil de los intérpretes en los servicios públicos que trabajan actualmente en España. La presente comunicación parte de los datos obtenidos a partir de un trabajo cualitativo basado en entrevistas en profundidad a intérpretes y mediadores para el chino en Cataluña. A partir de estos datos, se pretende describir el perfil de los intérpretes en los servicios públicos para el colectivo chino y compararlo con el perfil reflejado en los trabajos de carácter general. Nos fijaremos en datos como la procedencia, la formación o las tareas que entraña la práctica profesional, que nos servirán para reflexionar sobre el papel de las facultades de Traducción e Interpretación en la formación de futuros intérpretes de chino.  

La interpretación del chino en los servicios públicos: ¿salida profesional para los estudiantes de chino? from Mireia Vargas Urpi on Vimeo.

*Comunicación presentada en el I Congreso Iberoamericano de Estudios Chinos, celebrado en Barcelona, los días 25 y 26 de junio de 2012 y organizado por la Fundación Instituto Confucio de Barcelona y el Centro de Estudios e Investigación sobre Asia Oriental de la Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona.

Diàlegs marítims a l'altra frontera de la Xina

El proper dimecres 27, a les 17:30h, tindrà lloc al CIDOB un acte organitzat per InterAsia en col·laboració amb Entremons. UPF Journal of World History.  

La professora Zheng Yangwen (University of Manchester), qui impartirà un seminari durant l'Escola d'Estiu de Doctorat 2012, i que ha publicat recentment China on the Sea. How the Maritime World Shaped Modern China (Brill, 2011), conversarà amb Manel Ollé (UPF) i Seán Golden (UAB) sobre història marítima de la Xina, proto-globalitzacions i relacions internacionals.

L'edició de literatura xinesa

El portal de notícies ZaiChina publica avui una entrevista a Anne Hélène Suárez Girard, traductora i professora a la Universitat Autònoma, amb interessants reflexions al voltant de qüestions relatives a la traducció de textos xinesos dins del mercat editorial espanyol, els criteris de selecció d'obres i la tasca del traductor.

"Cosmopolitan China", University of Manchester

En Xavier Ortells-Nicolau, membre del grup InterAsia, ha participat a la conferència "Cosmopolitan China", organitzada pel Centre for Chinese Studies i l'Institut Confuci de la University of Manchester els dies 16, 17 i 18 de maig, amb la presentació "Beyond the Ruin: Transnational Negotiations of Chinese Architectural Heritage".

Abstract
 

The negotiation of China's architectural heritage has been, since Liang Sicheng's pioneering efforts at constructing an indigenous architectural history, an arena permeated by diverse and sometimes conflicting international actors and influences. China's ongoing re-urbanization programs have inescapably accentuated different ways of understanding the value of architectural patrimony and conservation. Just recently, when Liang's former residence, a symbol of preservationist attitudes, was demolished, an official tackled criticism with the now too-common answer that a replica would be built.

In front of solipsistic cultural approaches of political and cultural authorities both foreign and Chinese, the proposals of a group of internationally-trained Chinese architects, designers and artists have aimed at bridging between different cultural traditions and social needs, synthesizing aesthetic, cultural, and even political traditions into site-and-time specific projects that search for alternatives to the milieu of contemporary, globalized cities.

The notion of recycling, as previously explored by anthropology (Helen Siu) and urban studies (Madeleine Yue Dong, Michael Dutton) scholars, offers a chance to conceptualize the work of different artists and social agents, like architects Liu Jiakun and Wang Shu, or artists Xu Bing and Song Dong, whose work can be characterized by an intelligent reusability, the vindication of amateurism and the recycling of transnational elements, all of them put to work to revive tradition and culture while producing socially-sustainable alternatives to the speed and scope of China’s developmentalism.

In this sense, my presentation focuses on the figure of designer, curator, and self-assigned social engineer Ou Ning. As researcher and documentarist, Ou has produced a number of films about urban phenomena for an unquestionably transnational audience. Similarly, his job as curator of the Shenzhen-HK Architecture Biennale in 2009 has underscored his privileged position in the intersection of international actors and China's intellectual community.

Taizidang versus tuanpai: What's next for China's succession?

Seán Golden, member of the East-Asia research team, has published a commentary on the Bo Xilai scandal in China in the CIDOB Foundation of Barcelona's think tank publication Opinión CIDOB, n.º 148, 11 May 2012: Taizidang versus tuanpai: What's next for China's succession?

La Cina verso la nuova Leadership. Le sfide politiche ed economiche nell'anno del drago

Seán Golden, member of the Inter-Asia research group, spoke at the conference La Cina verso la nuova Leadership. Le sfide politiche ed economiche nell'anno del drago, organized by the Dipartimento di Studi sull'Asia e sull'Africa Mediterranea, Università Ca'Foscari Venezia (Italy), on 3 May 2012, in collaboration with the journal east. rivista europea di geopolitica and the think tank Istituto per gli Studi di Politiche internazionale on the occasion of launching Numero 41, Ombre cinesi (Aprile 2012) in Venice.

Abstract

The Party-State of the PRC is going through a generational change that will be formalised by the Party Congress in October 2012. The rapidly changing status of the PRC in the new world order requires a rethinking of many of the ideological bases of the socialist revolution in China. There are epistemic and interpretive communities acting as advisers to the new leadership that are proposing new paradigms “with Chinese characteristics” for international relations theory: Qin Yaqing, Yan Xuetong and Zhao Tingyang as examples.

Il Partito-Stato del PRC sta attraversando un cambio generazionale che sarà formalizzato dal Congresso del Partito in ottobre 2012. Lo stato di rapida evoluzione del PRC nel nuovo ordine mondiale richiede un ripensamento di molte delle basi ideologiche della rivoluzione socialista in Cina. Ci sono comunità epistemiche e interpretative che agiscono come consulenti per la nuova dirigenza che stanno proponendo paradigmi “con caratteristiche cinesi” per le teorie delle relazioni internazionali: Yaqing Qin, Yan Xuetong e Zhao Tingyang come esempi.