Title: The International Communication of Marxism in Greece: Translation, Interpretation, and Discourse Power Methods

Speaker: LvShisheng (professor, doctoral supervisor)

Time: 13:00-14:30, June 27, 2024 (Thursday)

Tencent Meeting: 766 371 154

Warmly welcome teachers and students to attend it.

Speaker Introduction:

LvShisheng is a professor and doctoral supervisor at the Graduate School of Translation, Beijing Language and Culture University. His main academic interests include literary translation studies, interpretation studies, and business English studies. He has published 83 research papers in suchacademic journals as Babel, The Journal of Translation, Forum for Modern Languages, Foreign Languages, Chinese Translation, Chinese Foreign Languages, etc. and authored 1 monograph, translated 4 works, and compiled 3 textbooks. He has presided over 2 projects funded by the National Social Science Fund and a total of 14 projects, including those from the Ministry of Education’s Humanities and Social Sciences Planning Project, Tianjin Social Science Planning Key Project, National Hanban/Nankai University Project, United Nations International Trade Centre Series Project, China Translation Research Institute Project, and special funds from universities under the direct leadership of the CPC Central Committee. He serves as a committee member of the Translation Theory and Teaching Committee of the Translators Association of China, vice president of the National Business English Research Association, deputy president of the Tianjin Translators Association, and executive director of the National International Sinology Research Association, among other positions. He has also served as a part-timedistinguished professor at Shanghai University of Finance and Economics, Southwestern University of Finance and Economics, Heilongjiang University, Xi’an International Studies University, Tianjin Foreign Studies University, Dalian University of Technology, and has held suchpositions as Dean of the School of Foreign Languages at Shanghai University of Finance and Economics and Tianjin Chengjian University.

Lecture Content:

The international communication of Marxism has undergone a complex development process, resulting in different social impacts with the communication process in different societies displaying different characteristics. The dissemination of The Communist Manifesto in Greece has notable localization features which is the topic of this lecture to examine the historical process of Marxist factions in early 20th century Greece competing for Marxist discourse power. It finds that the dissemination of The Communist Manifesto in Greece is a manifestation of the localization of Marxist theory, reflecting both the uniqueness of Marxism’s international communication and the universality of this process. The struggle for discourse power among different Marxist factions has promoted the dissemination of The Communist Manifesto in Greece, with the competition for discourse power manifesting itself in textual translation and following the logic of political struggle. In this struggle, the Greek Communist Party employed discourse control strategies to gain an advantage in interpreting The Communist Manifesto in Greece, thereby achieving control over the discourse power of Marxism.