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Chinese Program in Focus

Mireia Vargas-Urpí
Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain

Founded in 1968, the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB) is a public, generalist, campus-based university, mainly located in Bellaterra, near the city of Barcelona. It hosts a total of around 40,000 students (2019-18), counting undergraduate degree, master’s degree and PhD students. Research is distributed among 57 departments and teaching takes place in 13 faculties/schools. Both the Faculty of Translation and Interpreting and the Department of Translation, Interpreting and East Asian Studies have played a leading role as a hub of teaching, learning, research and dissemination where Chinese language and culture are concerned.