The Routledge Handbook of Asian Linguistics

Chris Shei lived in Taiwan until age 40 and went to pursue MPhil and PhD at Cambridge and Edinburgh respectively. Work at Swansea University started in 2003 consisting of teaching and research in applied linguistics and translation studies. A series of Routledge handbooks were edited from 2017 to the present including that in Chinese translation, Chinese discourse analysis, Chinese language teaching and Chinese studies. In addition to the most recent Routledge Handbook in Asian Studies, an online repository of Routledge Encyclopedia of Chinese Studies is currently in preparation.Saihong Li is Senior Lecturer in Translation and Interpreting Studies at the University of Stirling. Dr Li has been appointed as a Visiting/Honorary Professor at the University of Strathclyde and at Hainan Normal University. Dr Li also worked as a freelance interpreter and a pharmaceutical business consultant from 1999 to 2012 in China, Norway, Sweden, and Denmark. Dr Li has produced a substantial body of research including monographs and refereed journal articles on themes including food culture translation, political discourse translation, and policymaking regarding multilingual education; her research methods are drawn from the digital humanities and from related fields including corpus linguistics and digital humanities in experimental research. She has also conducted translation and interpreting research by using multimodal technology such as eye-tracking, skin response, heart rate, and face recognition.