WU Jianguo

WU Jianguo

Job title:Professor
Field of study:English Language and Literature, English-Chinese Translation Studies, and International Business Communication

Posts Held:

       Director of the MA program in English Language and Literature, and supervisor of MA Candidates.

Education:

MA majoring in Foreign Linguistics and Applied Linguistics from Shanghai Maritime University; MA majoring in Economic and Executive Management from Pepperdine University in Los Angeles, California, USA.

Research Interests:

English Language and Literature, English-Chinese Translation Studies, and International Business Communication.

Publications:

Over 30 academic papers published in China Translators’ Journal, Literary World (based in Hong Kong), Shanghai Translators’ Journal, Translation, Foreign Languages Research, English and American Literary Studies, Book Town, etc.

Major academic monologs including Fitzgerald Studies, International Trade (sponsored by China National Ministry of Finance and Economy), etc

Major translations including Ernest Hemingway’s The Sun Also Rises, For Whom the Bell Tolls, A Moveable Feast, Islands in the Stream, A Lack of Passion ,etc.; F. Scott Fitzgerald’s This Side of ParadiseThe Great Gatsby, etc; Ira Levin’s This Perfect Day; Zane Grey’s Riders of the Purple Sage; etc.

Course-books including Intensive English Readings of the Advanced Level, English Course Books for Graduate Students (5 Volumes), etc.

Awards:

Award for Model Workers of Anhui Province (1985); Award for Excellent Teaching Achievements of Anhui Province (2nd Prize, 1989); Chen Xiangmei Award for Excellent Education (1996); Celebrated Professor of Shanghai Maritime University (2005).

Academic Activities: 

Visiting Professor to Columbian University in Los Andes, University of Americas in Puebla, University of Science and Technology in Medlin, Mexico, Lima University of Peru, Fudan University in Shanghai, and a number of other prestigious universities in China and abroad, lecturing on Intercultural Business Communication, International Marketing Management, Regional Economics, etc.