Cindy S.B. Ngai
List of John Benjamins publications in which Cindy S.B. Ngai is involved.
2025 Entrepreneur or capitalist? Discursive constructions of a deceased business leader in Chinese digital mourning discourse Journal of Language and Politics: Online-First Articles | Article
This study examines the public mourning discourse surrounding the death of Zong Qinghou, founder of Wahaha Group, on Chinese social media. By incorporating text mining into critical discourse studies, this research provides a corpus-assisted discourse study of competing ways of constructing… read more
2020 The voice of the translator: A case study of the English translations of The Peony Pavilion Opera in Translation: Unity and diversity, Şerban, Adriana and Kelly Kar Yue Chan (eds.), pp. 159–173 | Chapter
There have been discussions about the concept of the translator’s voice, and the visibility of the translator in the practice of translation. However, questions relating to what actually makes the translator visible and visibility as a strategic act remain under-explored. This chapter examines… read more
2016 Representations of the dead and the afterlife in translations of Mudan Ting , a masterpiece in Chinese Kunqu theatre Babel 62:2, pp. 191–210 | Article
The aim of this paper is to identify and analyze the strategies used to translate into English death related cultural taboos viz. death, ghost and resurrection represented in the prominent classical Chinese drama Mudan Ting. Particular reference is made to the articulation of these taboos in… read more
2012 Translating eroticism in traditional Chinese drama: Three English versions of The Peony Pavilion Babel 58:1, pp. 73–94 | Article