Recent writing
Mostly related to UX content, localisation, and deathcare. All links point to Medium.
Decentering English: why we should listen to translators (April, 2023)
With the end in mind (February, 2023)
The ways we end (3): on parting (January, 2023)
The ways we end (2): on listening (January, 2023)
The ways we end (1): on celebration (January, 2023)
A year in (content) design learning (December, 2022)
On writing about money and diaspora (November, 2022)
Academic
Some published pieces on Macau and Chinese literature. Based on my PhD research.
“Eurasian extinction: miscegenation and the question of the native in Macau literature.” Situations: In/Visible Differences: ethnicity and nation, art and translation, vol. 14, no. 1, 2021, pp. 35-52.
“Keeping to the margins: Macau literature and a pre-postcolonial ‘poetics of insignificance’.” Reading China against the Grain: Imagining Communities, edited by Carlos Rojas and Mei-hwa Sung, Routledge, 2021, pp. 112-127.
“À margem das margens.” Macau: Novas Leituras, edited by Ana Paula Laborinho and Gonçalo Cordeiro et al, Tinta da China, 2020, pp. 99-107.
Writing the Margin: Sinophone Macau Literature of the Pre-postcolonial Era. 2018. Yale Univeristy, PhD dissertation.
Translated
Some published translations on various topics: vernacular architecture, Zen meditation, and Chinese literature.
Maria Helena Maia, “From the Portuguese House to ‘Popular Architecture in Portugal’: notes on the construction of Portuguese Architectural Identity.” National Identities, vol. 14, no. 3, 2012, pp. 243-256.
Man Chien, A Meditação Ch’an (Zen) na Vida Humana, Zéfiro, 2009.
Shi Tiesheng, “Destino.” Ficções — Revista de Contos, vo. 14, 2006, pp. 125-150.
Zhang Tianyi, “O Senhor Hua Wei.”, Ficções — Revista de Contos, vol. 10, 2004, pp. 55-67
Other writing
Some reviews I wrote for Rootsworld, a world music magazine.
Charanga: Tributo'ó Ti Tobias, Review for Rootsworld (2017)
Gaiteiros de Lisboa: Avis Rara, Review for Rootsworld (2013)