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The University of Barcelona is the best-rated state center in all international research indicators. The Faculty of Philology and Communication provides quality and prestigious research through the work of numerous groups and projects obtained in national and international competitive calls, research institutes and research and documentation centers. The Faculty's Research Committee (LINCAR) is the body in charge of defining, monitoring and evaluating the main lines of action in research. The Research Office is in charge of the financial and administrative management of the projects and offers general information on calls for proposals and grants.
Professor Mercedes Serna receives the most important grant of translation and interpretation given in China
News | 28-04-2021
Professor of Latin-American Literature Mercedes Serna, from the Faculty of Philology and Communication of the UB, received the National Grant for Translation in China, the most important grant for translation and interpretation given in this country. The objective of the grant is to translate, from Chinese to Spanish, the literary critic study Sihe Chen’s Elements of Weltliterature in 20th Century Chinese Lliterature.
Mercedes Serna got this project together with Gao Weiqian, lecturer of Spanish literature in Changsha University, who carried out her doctoral thesis in the Faculty of Philology and Communication under the supervision of Serna, together with Antoni C. Rovira, who studied in Rovira i Virgili University and is now a lecturer of Spanish at the Changsha University.
A grant to translate for the first time an essay by Sihe Chen into a western language
The aim of this grant is to translate Sihe Chen’s essay Elements of Weltliterature in 20th Century Chinese Literature into Spanish. To date, this essay had not been translated into any western language. Sihe Chen, professor at Fudan University (Shangai), is a distinguished writer in China, and one of the most prestigious contemporary Chinese literary critics in this country.
The grant aims to promote cultural ties between the Chinese and Spanish researchers. The project has been awarded with the support of the publishing house of Fudan University. The book that results from the translation grant projects will be published in the editorial Peter Lang.