Youlan Tao

List of John Benjamins publications in which Youlan Tao is involved.

Li, Yizhu and Youlan Tao 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

Tao, Youlan and Wenlu Li 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

Tao, Youlan 2013 Dr. Martin East: Task-Based Language Teaching from the Teachers’ Perspective: Insights from New Zealand. Babel 59:3, pp. 388–391 | Review

Tao, Youlan 2012 Towards a constructive model in training professional translators—a case study of MTI education program in China Babel 58:3, pp. 289–308 | Article