Open Cultural Studies

Abstract Throughout the history of translation in China, almost every major translation movement has been accompanied by the activities of foreign translators. China, during the seventeen years from 1949 to 1966, absorbed a large number of foreign translators, who made significant contributions to the translation profession of the People’s Republic of China (PRC). These foreign translators participated in China’s translation practice, resulting in distinct characteristics of the translators group. This article takes the concept of the “translator community” of the State Translation Program (STP) as the departing point to explore the characteristics of the foreign translators group engaged in STP in China from 1949 to 1966 and digs out the reasons behind the generation of the foreign translators group. It is found that the foreign translators group in the early 17 years after the founding of the PRC are specifically manifested as the translator positioning of state translators, the predominant translator identity of non-professionals, and the translator image of “gears” and “repairmen.” The generation of these groups is the result of multiple factors, including the state’s strategic requirement for translation output, the state’s macro-regulation of the allocation of translation talent resources, as well as the state’s manipulation of the translation process.

Longzhan Chen

Foreign Translators Group in the PRC From 1949 to 1966: A STP Perspective

1949年至1966年间中华人民共和国的外国翻译团队：一个STP视角

Abstract The article works with (Re)Searching Needs and Hope through Visual Storytelling which is the author’s audiovisual research project containing interviews with migrants of Lisbon, the capital of Portugal. The same set of questions was asked of people with different nationalities to identify the similarities and differences within their integration process; the questions focused on the socio-cultural aspects of integration. The article compares the participants’ answers regarding what helped or hindered their integration experience. The article relates these outcomes to what contributes to a migrant’s feeling of safety in a new home country. The main concepts used are “integration,” applying differentiating levels of integration experience, and “safe place,” which originated from Yi-Fu Tan, but have been interpreted through a wide socio-cultural lens in the conclusion.

Linda Koncz

Safe Places of Integration: Female Migrants from Eurasia in Lisbon, Portugal

融合的安全之地：来自欧亚的女性移民在葡萄牙里斯本

Abstract This article results from a knowledge transfer report commissioned by the Culture Area of the A Coruña City Council in Galicia (Spain), a city with an average population of 250,000 inhabitants. The report’s goal was to map all the cultural actions happening in the city. Due to their variety, dispersion, and multiplicity, the local government’s culture department required a comprehensive catalogue of these practices. The initial challenge was to collect and structure the information to create a visual atlas that would allow for the mapping of these activities, identifying potentialities, shortcomings, and weaknesses to establish future cultural action lines. As a result of investigative and fieldwork, it was decided to document the actions carried out by both public and private institutions, whether conducted by the City Council’s culture department, funded externally, or independent. This information was analysed to draw conclusions for planning the city’s cultural future.

José María Mesías-Lema

Álvarez-Barrio Carla

Eiriz Sabela

Pérez-Guilarte Yamilé

Cartography of Cultural Practices and Promoting Creative Policies for an Educating City

文化实践地图绘制与教育城市创意政策促进

Abstract There is a conceptual discrepancy between the expression “space of memory” and “place of memory.” In a different realm, the same seems to happen with the terms “safe space” and “safe place.” Coexisting but distinct worlds are explored in this article through the lens of the safe mnemotope : a place where memories have a fertile ground to settle and condense, where people find a safe dimension to externalize their inner emotions connected to the past. Based on a personal encounter with the Wind Phone in Japan, the article identifies some of the attributes that can make a place of memory a safe place, proposing them as initial guidelines to inspire the recognition and enhancement of realities that support the expression of complex feelings, providing a refuge where individuals can confront with their grief.

Clorinda Sissi Galasso

Mnemotope as a Safe Place: The Wind Phone in Japan

记忆庇护所：日本的风之电话

Abstract Whereas many indigenous and non-western cultures see plants and humans as connected, western worldviews tend to disregard plants as material commodities. Plant non-thinking of this kind is increasingly being challenged in response to the environmental threats arising from human exceptionalism. This essay investigates garden narratives as a form of more-than-human life writing which depicts plant–human relations as mutually transformative and reciprocal. I argue that garden narratives pioneer such a rethinking as a win-win scenario. The positive developments garden writers document are consistent with a concept put forward in environmental psychology: transilience. Making reference to five recent western garden narratives I show how plant encounters can help us move towards an emerging environmental culture which emphasises more-than-human embeddedness and embraces symbiotic over competitive relations.

Abbreviation	Open Cult. Stud.
Journal Impact	0.53
Quartiles(Global)	CULTURAL STUDIES(Q3)

Publication Information	Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH，Publishing cycle: ，Journal Type: journal，Open Access Journals: Yes
Basic data	Year of publication: 2017，Proportion of original research papers: 100.00%，Self Citation Rate:0.00%， Gold OA Rate: 94.87%
Journal Fees	$Details
Average review cycle	15 weeks

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Foreign Translators Group in the PRC From 1949 to 1966: A STP Perspective

Safe Places of Integration: Female Migrants from Eurasia in Lisbon, Portugal

Cartography of Cultural Practices and Promoting Creative Policies for an Educating City

Mnemotope as a Safe Place: The Wind Phone in Japan

Relational Transilience in the Garden: Plant–Human Encounters in More-than-Human Life Narratives

Foreign Translators Group in the PRC From 1949 to 1966: A STP Perspective

Safe Places of Integration: Female Migrants from Eurasia in Lisbon, Portugal

Cartography of Cultural Practices and Promoting Creative Policies for an Educating City

Mnemotope as a Safe Place: The Wind Phone in Japan

Relational Transilience in the Garden: Plant–Human Encounters in More-than-Human Life Narratives

ISSN	2451-3474
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