This course aims to develop students' abilities to reflect in an in-depth manner on the role of translation in the formation and transformation of intercultural relations at the levels of individuals and communities. Students will be engaged in discussing issues involving language, text, culture, prejudice, power and tolerance. The term "translation" will be treated as a critical concept that encompasses social and textual practices and enables the exploration of sameness and difference, identity and otherness. Examples will focus on interactions between the Chinese and other cultural contexts.