Short Biography

Xiaojie Chang is currently a PhD candidate in Sinology at the University of Heidelberg. She majored in Management and Translation Studies in Konstanz and Bonn. Apart from working as a freelance translator in different fields such as psychology, sustainable urban planning and education, her main academic focus is literary studies and translation. During her MA studies, she translated around 50 poems of the Hong Kong poet Yam Gong into German, several of which have already been published. Besides, she has also contributed to the Worldmaking Translation Project “KINDEMIC: Words and Worlds of Migrant Female Workers (in China)”.