Critical Arts 

Abstract: confronted by the Western Balkan countries. This work offers an interdisciplinary inquiry into the translation of “violence” in children’s literature, and thus, thematically bridges “children literature” and “translation studies” successfully. Methodologically, drawing upon diverse theoretical insights from sociology and critical/cultural studies, the five case analyses of translation apply diverse analytic tools to different scenarios, ranging from paratextual, textual to discursive analysis, and from visual to actor network analysis. Thus, this offers an exemplar picture of approaches to translation of children literature from a dynamic and multidimensional perspective. Besides, it is noted that exploratory topics in each chapter is framed and packaged within imagological discussions of the represented in the study areas of translated Children literature. This provides a theoretical coherence for integrating all the five individual case studies into a unified work. Moreover, the author’s personal communication with multiple translation actors is worth noting. Overall, adopting multidimensional examination techniques along with several critical analyses, this book addresses an under-explored topic of “violence” represented in children’s literature and its mediations across cultures. Todorova’s work can be considered as a promising and valuable recommendation to scholarship, not only within the area of translation studies but also for other areas of academic interests, such as media and discourse studies as well as cultural studies.

Abstract: This paper adopts a corpus-based critical discourse study of the representations of the National Congresses of the Communist Party of China (NCCPC) in China Daily (CD) and The New York Times (NYT) in the past two decades. It is found that the shared keywords in the CD corpus and NYT corpus tend to suggest different discursive constructions of the same event in different social-political contexts. The different representations of the NCCPC can be revealed in the three types of discourse-historical discursive strategies (referential or nomination strategies, predicational strategies, and perspectivation strategies). CD prefers to construct the NCCPC as important political events and brand China's political system, China's contribution to world stability and prosperity in reporting the events. By contrast, NYT tends to construct them as events of power transfer and point towards criticisms of China's political system.

Abstract: ABSTRACT To transform traditional postgraduate psychotherapeutic training programmes, we need educational strategies which acknowledge every clinical interaction as culturally situated. Autoethnography is put forward as a method of research-based self-study which can enable students to foster an awareness of the social unconscious. This approach can aid students bridge the gap between social order and the individual psyche, allowing the conceptualisation of collective aspects of individual subjectivity. An example of educator autoethnography – which explores accent as an embodied expression of both personal and sociocultural identity – is offered as illustration of the potential application of this strategy to the classroom.