Dr. LI Defeng (李德凤) is a distinguished adjunct professor in XISU within the “XISU Scholar” project. He has been a full-time professor of translation studies at the University of Macau since 2014. Previously he taught at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, Nanjing Normal University and most recently the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) at the University of London, where he served as Chair of the Centre for Translation Studies. He was also Dean of the School of Foreign Languages at Shandong University from 2006-2011 and Xingtaowan Chair Professor of Translation Studies at Shanghai Jiaotong University. He has published extensively in prestigious journals of translation studies such as Meta and Babel.