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      March, 2009 - 微软Office Word默认全局模板的开发及其在语言和翻译专业教学与科研中的使用 (国际翻译家联盟 [FIT] 第18届世界翻译大会 [2008年8月, 中国上海] 论文;《外语电化教学》[上海外国语大学] 2008年第5期，第63-70页) and 南京大学翻译硕士 (MTI) 专业学位课程 "计算机辅助翻译" 课程大纲 were added in the "Language and Translation Technologies (LTT)" suite.

      March, 2009 -《吾之幸福观》, Wang Xuefei's Literary Chinese (文言文) translation of "My view of happiness", was added in the Literature suite.

      February, 2009 - “ITS”: A Short Classified and Annotated Reading List for MA Students and "LTT": Recommended Reading were updated.

      August, 2007 - The default global template of MS Office Word ―

Normal.dot ― was updated, with the present two macros for processing English and Chinese webpages revised and two new macros for the purpose added.

      July, 2007 - A frame page paradigm was adopted for this site.

      July, 2007 - An Autotext List of Terms Used in Linguistics, Translation Studies, Language and Translation Technology, and Research Methodology was revised again and expanded.

      June, 2007 - A few photos taken in my recent trip to Singapore were added in the Visual Arts suite.

      May, 2007 -  The abstracts and TOC of Zhang Yanping's A Critical Analysis of the Translations of Public Signs in Nanjing (developed on the basis of a field study which was assigned as a practicum in the 4th-year Advanced Chinese-English Translation course and won the First-class Award for Outstanding BA Theses of Nanjing University in 2006) was added in the EC & CE Translation and Research Methodology and Reference Sources suites.

      April, 2007 -  The first few photos of Yaya were added in the Visual Arts suite.

      March, 2007 - E/C and C/E Practicum/Research Projects was updated.

      March, 2007 - An Autotext List of Terms Used in Linguistics, Translation Studies, Language and Translation Technology, and Research Methodology was further expanded.

      February, 2007 -  Link to 中国翻译人才网. was added in the EC & CE Translation suite. Links to Google Language Tools. and APA style guides (APA Style / Sample APA References) were added at the bottom of this page.

      January, 2007 - The Booklist of the Translation Studies Library (II) recently published by Foreign Language Teaching and Research Press (外研社) was added in the Translation Studies suite.

      January, 2007 - Link to University of Leeds' Centre for Translation Studies was added in the Translation Studies suite.

      January, 2007 - The Translation Studies part of the Autotext List of Terms Used in Linguistics, Translation Studies, Language and Translation Technology, and Research Methodology in my MS Office Word's default global template Normal.dot was further expanded. For better coping with various writing tasks, especially thesis writing and webpage creation, the styles in the template were updated, with some new styles (including Table Label, Table Text, and Webpage) created and some old styles (including Thesis Indent, Thesis Bibliographic Indent, Heading 5, Heading 6, and Heading 9) redefined. Chief files created with MS Word on this site have been updated accordingly using these styles. To consult definitions/functions of  and shortcut keys assigned to the styles/macros in this template, please click on the updated (now in tabular form) "Macros in this template" file.

      December, 2006 - The encoding conventions for An Autotext List of Terms Used in Linguistics, Translation Studies, Language and Translation Technology, and Research Methodology was revised and the Autotext list substantially expanded. The autotext will function in MS Word after you download and install the latest version of Ke Ping's Microsoft Office Word's default global template Normal.dot (zipped file). For an explanation of how to install the template, click HERE.

      November, 2006 - The English Department's Stipulations on the Writing of Thesis Abstracts was added in the Research Methodology & Reference Sources suite.

      November, 2006 - Link to StarDict Project was added in the Research Methodology & Reference Sources suite.

      November, 2006 - Environmental Study: Recent Developments was created in the Nature & Environment suite.

      October, 2006 - The Course Syllabus for "Thesis Research Seminar" (TRS) was added in the Research Methodology & Reference Sources suite.

      October, 2006 - Photos taken in my recent trip to Wuyuan, Jiangxi, China were added in the Visual Arts suite.

      September, 2006 - The Booklist of the Translation Studies Library (I) recently published by Foreign Language Teaching and Research Press (外研社) was added in the Translation Studies suite.

      September, 2006 - Photos taken in my recent trip to Inner Mongolia were added in the Visual Arts suite. Meanwhile, some old photos were removed from the suite.

      August, 2006 - The Course Syllabus and Course Outline for "Introduction to Translation Studies" were updated.

      July, 2006 - Ke Ping's Microsoft Office Word's default global template (Normal.dot) was updated in the Research Methodology & Reference Sources suite.

      June, 2006 - Useful macros in Ke Ping's Microsoft Office Word default global template (Normal.dot) was updated.

      June, 2006 - More photos (featuring Professor Cay Dollerup's visit to Nanjing University and Prof Mona Baker's visit to Nanjing University and Yangzhou, etc.) were added in the Visual Arts suite.

      September, 2005 - The Recommended Reading for the course "Introduction to Translation Studies" was updated.

      July, 2005 - A link to The Babel E/C Parallel Concordancer (which retrieves English and Chinese parallel texts from the the Babel English-Chinese Parallel Corpus) was added at the bottom of this page.

      July, 2005 - Photos of some graduating students and 2-year postgraduates on the degree track of Translating Studies were added in the Visual Arts suite.

      May, 2005 - The ppt file of Nicky Harman's recent lecture made at Nanjing University "How Useful Is Translation Technology for the 21st Century Translator?" was added in the Language & Translation

 suite (Courtesy of Prof Nicky Harman).

      February, 2005 - "ITLT" Course Outline was added.

      February, 2005 - Arial Unicode MS font used for all table of contents (TOC) pages.

      February, 2005 - Content of the Language & Linguistics, Translation Studies, LTT Resources Page and Research Methodology & Reference Sources suites consolidated and were updated.

      February, 2005 - Peter Newmark's Hints for Translation Exams and Deadlines was added to English-Chinese and Chinese-English (EC & CE) Translation suite.

      January, 2005 - The softwares page for the study of the course Language and Translation Technologies was updated.

      January, 2005 - Links to the famous lexical reference database WordNet. (developed by the Cognitive Science Laboratory at Princeton University) were added to both the Language & Linguistics and Research Methodology & Reference Sources suites.

      January, 2005 - To help students to use writing styles, especially the APA style, correctly when writing papers and theses, I sifted through online resources and added to the Research Methodology & Reference Sources suite a few quality style guides as well as links to style guides and web resources on personal bibliography managers. These include Citation Guide, APA Research Style Crib Sheet, and Web Resources on Bibliography Formatting Softwares (BFS). Also added to the suite is a new page entitled "A Few Differences Between the Harvard System [used in a number of publications in Translation Studies] and the APA System", which was created on the basis of my recent research.

      January, 2005 - A few dead links removed.

      November, 2004 - Ciba online dictionary search dialog box was added.

      November, 2004 - Recommended Reading for the course "Introduction to Translation Studies" was updated, with titles published by Shanghai Foreign Language Education Press in the "Translation Studies Abroad" Library (2001, 2004) added.

      October, 2004 - More pages (including the Forum page) indexed by the Site search engine.

      September, 2004 - More E/C and C/E translation assignments were added to the English-Chinese and Chinese-English (EC & CE) Translation suite. Both E/C and C/E translation assignments are classified into Group A (chiefly for undergraduates) and Group B (chiefly for graduate students).

      September, 2004 - Photos taken in my recent trip to Singapore were added in the Visual Arts suite.

      August, 2004 - Photos taken in my recent trip to France were added in the Visual Arts suite.

      July, 2004 - Dynamic IE Title Bar Date-Time Clock Display and Drop Down World Clock was added.

      July, 2004 - Site search engine was added.

      July, 2004 - Message Forum (message board) opened (at the bottom of this page). Please feel free to make comments or suggestions about this site in the Forum. You may also paste there any questions you may have for other visitors to this site. The maximum length of each message is 5000 characters (not words). HTML content is allowed.

      June, 2004 - The Nature & Environment suite was added.

      May, 2004 - Images of natural wonders, scenic beauty and human interest began to be pasted at the top of the home page as "Image(s) of the Month".

      March, 2004 - Link to a very good clustering search engine "Vivisimo" was added. (Google has not yet made any effort to incorporate the clustering search capability into its search engine L.)

      February, 2004 - Links to some transportation and weather information query sites were added on the Friendly Links page.

      January, 2004 - A new essay ("Being and Choice: a Look at Existentialism from the Perspective of Existentialist Literature" [Simplified Chinese]) was added in the Literature suite.

      A newly published paper ("'SARS' vs. 'Atypical Pneumonia': A Terminological Case Study" [Simplified Chinese; with Wu Zhijie] was added.

      Two new lecture outlines ("The Problem of Logic" and "The Use of Reference Sources in Translation") were added in the Research Methodology & Reference Sources suite.

      The "Reference Sources" suite was expanded to include pages and links related to research methods. The suite was renamed accordingly Research Methodology & Reference Sources.

      A diary kept by Yang Zi while traveling in the U.K. was added (kindly provided by the author).

      Links to Wikipedia (free multilingual encyclopedia), OneLook (dictionary lookup portal), and Google online search dialog boxes, and Systran Online Translation dialog box were added.

      More pictures (some taken in my recent visit to Singapore and Hong Kong) were added in the Visual Arts suite.

      Some new papers and links were added in the Language & Linguistics and Translation Studies pages.

      A new page created to facilitate the instruction of the new graduate course Language and Translation Technologies.

      Overall layout redesigned.