Professor

School of Translation Studies, Shandong University

E-mail:caroline_zhaowei@sdu.edu.cn

Mailing Address:

School of Translation Studies

Shandong University at Weihai

NO.180 Wenhuaxi Road

Weihai City, Shandong Province, China

Postal Code  264209

Education:

PhD, translation studies, Shandong University (Jinan)

MA, translation studies, Guangxi University

BA, Tourism English, Xi’an Foreign Languages Institute

BIO:

Wei Zhao, Ph.D in translation studies, professor at the School of Translation Studies, Shandong University (Weihai), Lead editor of the International Journal of Translation, Interpretation, and Applied Linguistics (IJTIAL). She is the author of over 20 research papers in three areas of translation studies: translation history, interpretation of traditional Chinese translation theories and translation education. She compiled A Socio-cultural Perspective of Translation Traditions in the West (2014) and A New Coursebook of Chinese-English Translation (2017). She also wrote the monograph The Prototype and Evaluation System of Dictionaries of Translation Studies (2014) and A Socio-cultural Interpretation of Traditional Chinese Translation Discourses (2019). Her translations include A Very Lonely Planet (2008), The Silver Bough (2007), Years in Treating Treasures: Bank Museum Boutique Appreciations (2013) and The Moon Valley (2015). She is principle investigator for four research projects. The courses she has taught include BA thesis Writing, Translation History, Schools of Translation Theory, MTI Thesis Writing.