Yangyang Long

Dr Yangyang Long is Associate Professor in the Department of Literary and Translation Studies at Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University. She serves as Associate Editor of The Translator, a leading international journal in Translation and Interpreting Studies, and as Deputy Head of Department, Learning & Teaching.

Her work develops “China in Translation” as a research, editorial and pedagogical platform for examining how Chinese culture, theatre, heritage, ideas and memory travel across languages, media and institutions. Working across Translation Studies, Chinese literary and cultural studies, theatre and performance studies, and intercultural communication, she approaches translation not simply as linguistic transfer, but as a form of cultural judgement, ethical mediation and global knowledge production.

Dr Long is the author of The Works of Lin Yutang: Translation and Recognition (Routledge, 2023) and co-editor of China in Translation: Mediating Culture, Technology, and Global Exchange (Routledge, forthcoming). Her publications have appeared in journals such as The Translator, Humanities and Social Sciences Communications, Asia Pacific Translation and Intercultural Studies, Atlantic Studies: Global Currents, TranscULturAL, and Coup de Théâtre. She has served as a peer reviewer for journals such as Target, The Translator, Perspectives, Translation and Interpreting Studies, Asian Studies Review, Critical Arts: South-North Cultural and Media Studies, Modern Chinese Literature and Culture, Humanities & Social Sciences Communications, Journal of Literary Multilingualism, Journal of the Society for Asian Humanities.

Her research has been supported by provincial, university and school-level funding. She was Principal Investigator of the Jiangsu Province Innovation and Entrepreneurship Doctor Fund project on the dissemination and reception of Lin Yutang’s English translation and writing in the Anglophone world. Her work was also selected by XJTLU as a nominee to the China Ministry of Education Outstanding Scientific Research Award of Higher Education Institutions in Humanities and Social Sciences.

At XJTLU, Dr Long has contributed to the development of Translation and Interpreting Studies through AI-informed pedagogical innovation,  research-led teaching, curriculum design, assessment reform. As Deputy Head of Department, Learning & Teaching, she supports curriculum development and quality enhancement across Translation and Interpreting Studies and Literary Studies. Her recent educational work moves from AI use to AI judgement, developing ways for students to make visible their translation decisions, intercultural reasoning, ethical awareness and responsible engagement with generative AI.

Dr Long won the “Outstanding Individual in Education and Teaching in Suzhou” award in 2025 and the Academic Excellence Award in Teaching of the School of Humanities and Social Sciences at XJTLU in 2024. She is also the lead curator for The Digital Gallery: Translating China. 

Across her research, editorial work and educational leadership, Dr Long positions translation as a central field for understanding cultural recognition, China’s global communication, and the role of human judgement in technologically mediated knowledge production.

1. Translation, Recognition and Cultural identity
   This strand examines how Chinese writers, translators, texts and ideas are translated, received and reinterpreted across languages, histories and ideological contexts. It builds on Dr Long’s work on Lin Yutang, Chinese literary translation, East–West cultural encounters and the ethics of recognition.
2. China in Translation: Literature, Theatre, Heritage and Global Exchange
   This strand investigates how Chinese literature, theatre, film, intangible cultural heritage and philosophical traditions are translated, performed, curated and mediated in Anglophone and transnational contexts. It positions translation as a central mechanism in the global circulation of Chinese culture and in the making of China’s international cultural presence.
3. AI-integrated Teaching, Translation Education and Intercultural Pedagogy
   This strand explores how translation education can respond to generative AI by shifting the focus from linguistic output to human judgement, justification, ethical decision-making and intercultural reasoning. It connects curriculum design, assessment innovation, student AI literacy and cultural translation pedagogy.

Research and Editorial Leadership

Through her editorial role, peer-review service, invited lectures and research collaboration, Dr Long contributes to the international scholarly community in Translation Studies, literary studies, cultural studies and intercultural communication. Her editorial and reviewing work reflects her broader commitment to shaping Translation Studies as a field concerned with cultural mediation, ethical judgement and intercultural knowledge production.

At XJTLU, she co-established “Translating China”, a cross-departmental and cross-school research initiative that has developed from a workshop series into a collaborative platform for research events, external engagement, grant activity, curriculum enhancement and publication. The initiative has supported the Routledge volume China in Translation: Mediating Culture, Technology, and Global Exchange and continues to connect research on Chinese culture, translation, media, technology and global exchange.

Her academic leadership also extends to learning and teaching. As Deputy Head of Department, Learning & Teaching, she has contributed to curriculum development, assessment reform, staff mentoring and AI-informed pedagogical innovation across Translation and Interpreting Studies and Literary Studies.

PhD Supervision Interests

Dr Long welcomes research proposals in Chinese cultural translation; translation and recognition; Lin Yutang and modern Chinese literary translation; Chinese theatre, performance and heritage in translation; translation and global China; AI and translation education; and intercultural communication in Sino-global contexts.

Associate Editor, The Translator
Taylor & Francis
2026–present

Associate Professor
Department of Literary and Translation Studies, Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University
2026–present

Deputy Head of Department, Learning & Teaching
Department of Literary and Translation Studies, Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University
2025–present

Assessment Lead / Exam Officer
Department of Literary and Translation Studies, Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University
2023–present

Assistant Professor
Department of Literary and Translation Studies, Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University
2020–2025

2023, Departmental research seminar series, Translating for Performance: Royal Shakespeare Company’s Production of 窦娥冤 (The Injustice to Dou E) as Snow in Midsummer, Xian Jiaotong-Liverpool University, Department of Translation and Interpreting, China

2021, invited public lecture, Whose Play Is It? Translating and Performing Chinese Drama for the Global Stage (谁的剧？中国戏剧的国际传播：翻译与表演), Queens Language Centres Chinese Culture Forum (https://blogs.qub.ac.uk/mandarinchinese/2021/07/01/ccf11-july-talk/), Queens University Belfast, UK

2019, invited academic lecture, Rethinking WWII through the Lens of Translation: Looking Backward to See Ahead and What We Can Learn from Lin Yutang?, Queen’s Translation and Interpreting Research Collective Seminar (https://www.qub.ac.uk/research-centres/cti/seminarseries/), Queen’s University Belfast, UK

TRI307 Translating China I: Culture and History (Module Leader)

TRI303 Conference Interpreting (Module Leader)

TRI301 Translation and Interpreting Final Year Project 

TRI209 Literary Translation (Module Leader)

TRI207 Translation and Culture (Module Leader)

TRI202 Interpreting (Module Leader)

TRI102 Introduction to Translation and Interpreting

TRI002 Essentials of Translation and Interpreting

HSS001 Explore Humanities and Social Sciences -- Translation and Interpreting

HSS003 HSS Futures: Humanities and Social Sciences in the Digital Age 

HSS005 Creativity in Motion: Communicating Through Games and Digital Media 

LIF001 Research-led & Project-based Learning

2025, Outstanding Individual in Education and Teaching in Suzhou for the Year of 2024 (4 awardees at XJTLU)

2024, XJTLU School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Academic Excellence Award in Teaching (1 awardee in School)

2022, XJTLU nominee to China Ministry of Education (MoE): The 9th Outstanding Scientific Research Award of Higher Education Institutions, Humanities and Social Sciences (2 nominees)

2021 Jiangsu Province Talent Programme Innovation and Entrepreneurship Doctor

2018, Great Britain-China Educational Trust Chinese Students Award, £1000 for supporting the writing-up year of PhD

2017, Queen’s University Travel Funding Award, £500 for supporting the Asian Translation Traditions Conference

2016, Queen’s University Santander Mobility Scholarship, £5000 for research trip to New York University, University of Massachusetts, University of California, Los Angeles

2015, Queen’s University Santander Mobility Scholarship, £1000 for research trip to University of Heidelberg

2014-2017, Queen’s University Belfast/China Scholarship Council PhD Award