Pathlight, the English version of People’s Literature, was started its publication to spread Chinese literary works English-speaking world in 2011. Pathlight contains a large number translators, various sources and rich forms original texts, which shows readers unique linguistic charm demonstrated by different translators. However, study translator group has not received attention academic circ...

Classical Chinese poetry, an important part of Chinese culture, has always been a great task for translators, home and abroad. It is the foreign translators who, in the early 20 century, first translated the classical Chinese poetry into English. The Chinese scholars began to do the translation in the seventies of the 20 century. From the existent translations, foreign or Chinese, we can find t...

In human translation, translators first make draft translations and then modify and edit them. In the case of experienced translators, this process involves the use of wide-ranging expert knowledge, which has mostly remained implicit so far. Describing the difference between draft and final translations, therefore, should contribute to making this knowledge explicit. If we could clarify the exp...

Several days ago, President Trump issued an executive order [1] barring immigrants and nonimmigrant visitors from seven Muslim-majority countries from entering the United States -significantly impacting many students and scholars. This follows on the heels of two other executive orders focused on immigration enforcement [2] and border security that he signed last week, which froze refugee admis...

The Andalusian jurist Ab? Bakr al-?ur??sh? (d. 1126) was once asked whether or not it was permissible to eat cheese imported into Alexandria from the Christian territories along the northern coastline of the Mediterranean. The question clearly intrigued al-?ur??sh?, since he went to considerable lengths to research the subject before issuing his final response. Naturally, he checked the princip...

Stem cells are cells with the ability to divide for indefinite periods and to give rise to specialized cells.  Stem cell therapy has now been emerged as an extraordinary promise to treat a wide range of diseases and conditions.  However, except blood stem cell transfer by bone marrow transplant which has been used as an standard practice for more than 50 years, nearly all of therapeutic potenti...