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Yiqing Gu Editor

Yiqing Gu is Associate Professor of Translation Studies at the School of Foreign Studies, Tongji University, China. His research interests include translation history, science fiction translation, global communication, digital humanities, and Wellsian studies. He previously taught at Shanghai International Studies University and was the inaugural curator of the Museum of World Languages. He currently serves as Deputy Secretary-General of the Chinese Comparative Literature Association’s Translation Studies section. He is also an active translator of science fiction and art history, including The H. G. Wells Collection (2020, in Chinese).

Yun Wu is Distinguished Professor of Translation Studies and Dean of the School of Foreign Studies at Tongji University, China. Her research focuses on cultural translation theory, translation and ideology, as well as the translation of Chinese literature and culture. She is the author of Contemporary Chinese Novels in Translation Since 1978: Literary Voices from the Periphery (2024).

Riccardo Moratto is Distinguished Professor of Translation and Interpreting Studies at the School of Foreign Studies, Tongji University, and Deputy Director of Research Center for Chinese Discourse and Global Communication, AIIC member and member of Assointerpreti. He is a Chartered Linguist and Fellow Member of CIoL, an international conference interpreter and renowned literary translator. He is editor-in-chief of Interpreting Studies for Shanghai Foreign Language Education Press and editor-in-chief of Routledge Studies in East Asian Interpreting and Routledge Interdisciplinary and Transcultural Approaches to Chinese Literature.