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YU Jianhua: Compiling dictionary of world literature to boost cultural communication


21 June 2021 | By Li Minghong, Mo Dijian, Feng Fanzhou, Zhou Jiawen | Copyedited by GU Yiqing


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Companion to American Literature edited by professor Yu Jianhua from Shanghai International Studies University (SISU) won first prize in the book and paper section of the eighth Science Research Famous Achievement Award in Higher Institution organized by the Ministry of Education of the People's Republic of China on December 10, 2020.

In 2015, the book came out as the first foreign literature dictionary compiled by an all-Chinese team, after a ten-year hardworking. It consists of nearly 1,500 pages and more than 2,000 entries.

Organized by Prof Yu from SISU's Institute of Literary Studies, the team was joined by more than 40 experts and scholars from more than 20 universities. They started to compile the dictionary in 2005 when Yu had finished compiling a set of literary dictionaries.

The team's working guideline is, learning good things from other cultures to breeding our new one. “The literary communication, penetration, and influence between China and the United States will become more and more frequent and further with the deepening of the globalization. To serve Chinese college students, cultural researchers, and ordinary readers, and to serve the development of China-US cultural exchanges is the original intention and purpose of this book.” Yu said.

Standardizing name translations is one of the challenges the team has met in the process of editing. "It would be a bonus if our thesaurus could serve as some kind of standardization," Yu said.

In Yu's view, people-to-people communication is an efficient way for cultural exchange. "And I expect this dictionary to help our readers broaden their international cultural horizons," he said. Readers can learn about genuine foreign culture better, with a literal dictionary edited by Chinese scholars.

 

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