About

Lena Shiting Lu

Lena Shiting Lu is a second-year PhD student in Translation Studies at the School of Arts, English and Languages, Queen’s University Belfast, UK. Her research is funded by AHRC Northern Bridge Doctoral Training Partnership, and she previously earned her master of Translation and Interpreting from Peking University, China. Prior to doing her PhD, she worked as a product manager and a freelance translator and proofreader. Her publications include: The War on Covid-19: Stories from the Frontlines (Chinese to English, 2021), Verdi’s Shakespeare: Men of the Theater (English to Chinese, 2024), and The Tale of Beijing: History and Geography (Chinese to English, due 2025).

Works by Lena Shiting Lu

The Last Speech

Wen Yiduo, a renowned Chinese patriot poet and scholar, did not believe in the existence of dragons. He repeatedly encountered strange events prior to a speech he was due to give. As it turns out, the instigators were from the future, hoping to change historical perceptions of dragons by influencing Wen Yiduo’s thoughts.