Youlan Tao
List of John Benjamins publications in which Youlan Tao is involved.
2024 Exploring the motivations of student volunteer translators in Chinese queer activism: A Q-methodological study Target 36:1, pp. 112–136 | Article
Amateur translators have, on a collaborative and voluntary basis, played a notable role in queer activism, but queer translation studies has paid insufficient attention to them, especially in regions other than the Global North. Through the lens of volunteer motivation studies, this study adopts… read more
2024 Reading Confucius in translation: An empirical study of western academic readers’ responses to English translations of The Analects Translation and Interpreting Studies 19:3, pp. 432–455 | Article
This article examines the communicative effectiveness of translated versions of The Analects from an Anglophone perspective using a questionnaire-based survey targeting English-speaking academics. Sinologists, translators, and readers specializing in East Asian philosophy provided insights about… read more



