Lu YAN

Chinese A · French B · English C

Language teaching & research · Translation · interpreting · proofreading (Chinese · French · English) · Voice-over

Available for assignments in the EU and China.

• PhD in Translation theories and practice

• Sworn interpreter at the Versailles Court of Appeal

• DELF–DALF examiner and marker · all levels

• Qualified by the French CNU for Associate Professor positions · Section 15 (Chinese), 2025

• Chinese-French interpreter and translator

• French and Chinese language trainer

French business ID 842 811 911 00044

600+ interpreting hours · 800,000+ characters translated and reviewed · 1,000+ cumulative online-course enrolments · 40,000+ education followers

01 · Areas of expertise

• Literature, culture and the arts

• Society, business and public affairs

• CSR, ESG and the environment

• Technology, innovation and AI

• Negotiation and international cooperation

• Education, research and course design

02 · Professional experience

Simultaneous interpreting & high-level events

2024–2025

The Deleuze Inventory: screening and lecture

Centre Pompidou

• Dec 2025

• Simultaneous interpreting

High-level Sino-French heritage conservation seminar

Emperor Qinshihuang’s Mausoleum Site Museum × Foundation for Heritage Science

• 13–14 May 2025

• Chinese-French simultaneous and consecutive interpreting

• National scientific cooperation project

• The cooperation was included in the 2024 joint declaration by the French and Chinese heads of state

Forum on Cooperation and Prospects for Sustainable Development in the New Era

• Simultaneous interpreting

• Participants from diplomatic, academic and business circles, including ESCP Business School, JD.com France and Saint-Gobain

Changsha–Paris trade meeting

• Simultaneous interpreting

Olymp’Arts annual awards ceremony

• Simultaneous interpreting

Hongqi press conference at the Paris Motor Show

• Simultaneous interpreting

Launch of the first CSR report by Chinese companies in France

• Simultaneous interpreting

The Eye Chinese group exhibition roundtable

Centre Pompidou

• 11 Oct 2024

• Le Mensuel No. 34

• Chinese-French simultaneous interpreting

Consecutive & whispered interpreting, delegations

2024–2025

Longgang government and business delegation in Paris

• Visit to Station F

• Visit to Dassault Systèmes headquarters

• Visit to the Paris Chamber of Commerce and Industry

• Longgang–Paris economic and trade meeting

Interview with the deputy director of the Palace Museum

China Cultural Centre in Paris

• “A Century of Conservation” image exhibition

• Consecutive interpreting

Hunan delegation meeting with Jean-Pierre Raffarin

• Consecutive interpreting

Tianjin Municipal Bureau of Commerce visits in Paris

• Michelin Guide

• Savencia

• INAPORC

Paris Cité University Foundation reception for an Infinitus delegation

• Delegation meeting

• Visit to the Museum of the History of Medicine

Symev reception for a China Association of Auctioneers delegation

• Consecutive interpreting

• Signing of a cooperation memorandum

Destination China opening ceremony at IFTM

• Consecutive interpreting

27 Jul 2024

Xiaomi France CHUANMEN exhibition

• LEI Jun and senior executives meeting French fans

• Chinese-French consecutive interpreting

TikTok France meeting with French MCN agencies

• Remote consecutive interpreting

Lagardère News reception for a Chinese delegation

• Visits to the Paris Match, Europe 1, Europe 2 and RFM newsrooms and studios

• Annual cooperation review meeting

6 Sep 2023

Ningxia wine launch in France

• Consecutive and whispered interpreting for François Hollande

Since 2021

BRL Ingénierie — AFD-funded projects

• Translation and consecutive interpreting for development projects

AFTCom community interpreting

• Telephone interpreting

• Consecutive interpreting in social-service settings

2021–2022

Jacadi Paris skincare and fragrance project

• Consecutive interpreting for recurring videoconferences

• Translation of brochures and marketing materials

2019

Centre Pompidou × Macao Museum of Art project videoconference

Centre Pompidou

• Consecutive interpreting

Press interview with artist CAO Fei

Centre Pompidou

• Consecutive interpreting

Hours of China lecture series

Centre Pompidou

• Two Chinese-French consecutive-interpreting sessions

2019

Sino-French Cosmetics Culture and Brand Summit

• Simultaneous interpreting

“Charm of Chinese Characters” exhibition press conference

• Consecutive interpreting

NA China documentary

• Consecutive interpreting

2011–2014

Training seminars for professionals and officials from French-speaking African countries

Fuzhou and Xiamen

• Translation of course materials

• Consecutive interpreting

• Simultaneous interpreting

• Topics included textile technology and management, marine fisheries and coastal-zone management

2006–2015

Ministerial, provincial, municipal and university translation and interpreting assignments

Xiamen and Fujian

• Chinese Ministry of Commerce, Fujian Provincial Government, Xiamen Municipal Government and Xiamen University

• More than 400 interpreting hours

• More than 300,000 Chinese characters translated

Translation & review

Since Jul 2026

International Tropical Timber Technical Association (ATIBT)

• Document translation

• Website translation

• Review

• Volume: 20,000 words

Since Jun 2023

Centre Pompidou × West Bund Museum Project Shanghai

Ongoing collaboration

• 7 exhibitions covered to date

• Review of exhibition texts and educational materials translated from French and English into Chinese

• Inaugurated in November 2019 in the presence of President Emmanuel Macron, it was then the largest cultural exchange and cooperation project between France and China

• Renewed on 24 November 2023, the partnership entered its second five-year phase, covering 2024–2029

• The project continues to play a leading role in Franco-Chinese cultural exchange

• As of 20 November 2024: 98,000 Chinese characters reviewed and 50 hours of layout proofreading

• Exhibition: Reflections of the Portrait

• Exhibition: Raoul Dufy, The Melody of Happiness

• Exhibition: Journeys in Sound

• Exhibition: Another Avant-Garde, Photography 1970–2000

• Exhibition: Reinventing Landscape

• Exhibition: Fluxus, by Chance

• Exhibition: Computer Worlds

• Additional project: travelling-catalogue translation

2018–2022

Vision Chine magazine

• Chinese-French translation and review of news reports and features

• 5,000–12,000 words per issue

• 30 issues in total

• Collection held by the Bpi at the Centre Pompidou

Voice-over & media localisation

2022

UNESCO World Radio Day audio campaign

• Translation and review

• Mandarin voice-over

2020

Nannan, season 2 of the award-winning multilingual fiction podcast Mija

Studio Ochenta

• No. 1 fiction podcast on Apple Podcasts China for three consecutive weeks

• 18,000-word English-Chinese translation

• Mandarin voice-over

• Chinese localisation advice

2019–2020

VoiceMap multilingual audio guides

• Dubai, Vienna, New York and Paris

• English-Chinese translation review

• Mandarin voice-over

2018

BFMTV Grand Angle programme

• Interviews with Chinese tourists during the Yellow Vests movement

• Consecutive interpreting

• French translation of an excerpt from a Macao television report

03 · Education

2016

PhD · Translation theories and practice

Guangdong University of Foreign Studies

• Thesis: “Génie des langues” in interpreting — a parallel Chinese–French / French–Chinese corpus

2006

MA · Foreign and Applied Linguistics

Xiamen University

2003

BA · French Language and Literature

Xiamen University

Professional training

• 2024 · Judicial expertise training, 21 hours, AFT Formation

• 2019 · DELF–DALF examiner and marker certification, 5 days, CIEP

• 2013 · Regional BELC programme, 5 days, CIEP Taipei

04 · Teaching & leadership

Aug 2026

Foreign Language Teaching and Research Press (FLTRP)

• Joint launch of the online course “French Dictation: Guided Practice from Beginner to A2”

Since Jun 2023

Industry mentor for undergraduate and master’s students in French

School of Foreign Studies, Shanghai University

• Second-term renewal

• Current term: Jun 2026–Jun 2029

Since 2020

Online language and translation programmes

• 1,000+ enrolments

• DELF–DALF preparation

• Authentic-corpus study

• Specialised translation in small cohorts

• Beginner and intermediate interpreting in small cohorts

• 90% re-enrolment

2020–2024

Lecturer · Language Instructor · Temporary Teaching and Research Fellow (ATER)

Paris Nanterre University, School of Foreign Languages and Cultures

• Undergraduate: spoken Chinese

• Undergraduate: business Chinese

• Undergraduate: negotiation

• Undergraduate: CSR in Asia

• Master’s: professional negotiation

• Master’s: specialised Chinese–French translation

2019–2020

Adjunct instructor

Confucius Institute, Paris Diderot University

• Intermediate and advanced spoken Chinese

2016–2018

Chinese director

Confucius Institute, Université Paris Nanterre

• Administrative, financial and academic management

• Cultural exchange

• Chinese teaching at all levels

2006–2018

Assistant Professor · Programme lead (2010–2014)

Department of French, Xiamen University

• Master’s: interpreting theory

• Master’s: interpreting practice

• Undergraduate: Chinese–French interpreting

• Undergraduate: grammar

• Undergraduate: comprehension

• Undergraduate: pilot MOOC

05 · Conferences & seminars

2025

Invited lecture · Translation and localisation of the multilingual fiction podcast Nannan (Mija 2)

Shanghai University

2025

Annual conference for court-appointed translators and interpreters

Versailles Court of Appeal

2024

Teaching Chinese in Applied Foreign Languages programmes

Paris Nanterre University

• Collaborative workflow in a Chinese–French audiovisual translation project

2024

Invited lecture · You Will Never Be Replaced by AI

Xiamen University

2023

Invited lecture · Language learning and translation training in the ChatGPT era

Sichuan International Studies University

2023

Chinese-language professional networking day

Université Lyon 2

• Versatile skill development in language services

2021

Invited lecture · Professional empowerment for translators and interpreters

Sichuan International Studies University

2018–2019

The neutrality of translators and interpreters: myth and reality

ESIT, Paris

2010–2014

8th–10th National Conference and International Forum on Interpreting

Chengdu, Beijing and Xiamen

06 · Publications

Source-text orientation or target-language reception? A Chinese–French audiovisual translation project

Teaching Chinese in Applied Foreign Languages, submitted, 2025

Project-based specialised translation teaching in a Master’s programme

Peter Lang, forthcoming, 2024

Matisse by Matisse

UCCA exhibition catalogue, French–Chinese, 10,000 Chinese characters, 2023

Discoveries and Scientific Inventions in Ancient China

EDP Sciences, Chinese–French, 30,000 Chinese characters, 2021

The influence of language-specific features on interpreting

Journal of Leshan Normal University, 2014(09): 43–49

The Vessels of the Heart by Benoîte Groult

New Star Press, French–Chinese, 180,000 Chinese characters, 2008

A Concise History of Jazz and African-American Music by Lucien Malson

Renmin University Press, French–Chinese, 180,000 Chinese characters, 2005

07 · Project archive

Selected assignments documented in the existing personal-site archive.