This international conference is the first of its kindin its particular focus to examine the connection between translation and journal publication. The conference will be held at Jinan University, Guangzhou, China on 28-29 June 2014. It invites both empirical and theoretical expositions. Innovative, new paradigms which situate translation and journal publication/publishing in the production of literary forms, intellectual history, modernity, language hegemony, cultural and national identity etc. are all welcome. Conference participants coming from other countries or regions in China are advised to arrive in Guangzhou on 27 June 2014.