Saturday 2/26 @ 2 PM ET Zoom Event

A quarter of the world’s video game industry revenues are from China. Chinese online games are gaining increasing attention globally. How do these games gain an international audience of players, and what are the skills, tools, and knowledge required of translators to facilitate this process?

Lani Nelson will offer insights into trends in China’s gaming industry today from her own perspective as a translator specializing in game localization.  She’ll speak about her personal journey with Chinese language study and the unexpected convergence with her interest in gaming.  She’ll also address newly emerging opportunities in freelance translation and the technological innovations that are now transforming translation work across borders.

Presenter:   Lani Nelson (SUNY New Paltz ‘13), Freelance Chinese to English Games Translator based in Glasgow, Scotland

Moderator:  Kristine Harris (Wellesley Chinese & English BA ’86; Columbia EALAC MA/PhD ’97) is an Associate Professor of History and Asian Studies at SUNY New Paltz

NOTE:  Registration for the talk is by prior email invitation only.

To receive the invitation:

Email Kristine Harris (harrisk@newpaltz.edu) and she will ask them to email you the zoom link.

(or you can email HTL.Legacy@gmail.com directly – providing your name and email address – just mention that you received event announcement from Kristine Harris.)

Event Sponsor:  Helen T. Lin Legacy Tiger Talks Series:  https://www.helentlinlegacy.org/

PRESENTER BIOS:

Presenter: 
Lani Nelson (SUNY New Paltz ‘13) holds a BA in Asian Studies with a minor in Linguistics, along with an MSc in Translation Studies from the University of Stirling. Once a reporter and video editor for a Manhattan-based Chinese TV station, she now works from home in Glasgow, Scotland as a freelance Chinese to English games translator. 
 
Moderator: 
Kristine Harris (Wellesley Chinese & English BA ’86; Columbia EALAC MA/PhD ’97) is an Associate Professor of History and Asian Studies at SUNY New Paltz.  A historian of modern China with a research focus on film, media, visual culture, and gender studies, her writing has appeared in The Harvard New Literary History of Modern China, The Oxford Handbook of Chinese Cinemas, History in Images: Pictures and Public Space in Modern China, and The New Woman International, among others.