IATIS, the International Association for Translation and Intercultural Studies, is pleased to announce the online publication of the eighth issue of New Voices in Translation Studies, which marks an unprecedented collaboration with the International Postgraduate Conference in Translation and Interpreting (IPCITI): this New Voices issue largely consists of the selected conference proceedings from IPCITI 6, titled “From Reflection to Refraction: new perspectives, new settings and new impacts” and held at the University of Manchester in October 2010. In total, the issue consists of ten articles by young researchers and thirteen abstracts of recently submitted Ph.D. theses.

Midwife' of Chinese literature prized for his work on woman author
By Liu Jun (China Daily)

Professor Howard Goldblatt, hailed as the "midwife" of contemporary Chinese literature by John Updike, was sweating when he received the Xiao Hong Research Award on June 3, in Harbin, for his contribution in refocusing attention on the long-neglected author.