Shichi Lan
List of John Benjamins publications for which Shichi Lan plays a role.
Articles
2023 Chapter 7. The colonized in conflict: Taiwanese military interpreters and the postwar British war crime trials Towards an Atlas of the History of Interpreting: Voices from around the world, Ruiz Rosendo, Lucía and Jesús Baigorri-Jalón (eds.), pp. 171–192 | Chapter
As Japanese military expanded into Southeast Asia and its need for interpreters increased dramatically after 1941, the Taiwanese – who were subjected to Japan’s colonial rule (1895–1945) and proficient in both the languages of the Japanese colonizer and of overseas Chinese and Malay population… read more
2016 “Crime” of interpreting: Taiwanese interpreters as war criminals of World War II New Insights in the History of Interpreting, Takeda, Kayoko and Jesús Baigorri-Jalón (eds.), pp. 193–224 | Article
After WWII, 173 Taiwanese who had served in the Japanese army were
convicted as war criminals. Among the 21 executed Taiwanese, at least 13
were convicted for crimes committed while working as interpreters, formal or
informal, during the war. In addition, a handful of Taiwanese interpreters… read more